“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.” RealFeelingsGovernmentCareValuesSuccessfulPolicyProduceHairArgumentMachinesHealth CareConsumersReal ThingsManufacturingWashingHaircutsDryersWashing MachinesHair Dryers Author:Christina Romer
“When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.” GovernmentDecisionInfluenceGainsAdvantageFactorsConsumersDecision MakingEfficiencyFederal GovernmentWeighing Author:Gina McCarthy
“England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.” GivingIdeasGovernmentPurposeStrongSocialPrinciplesEconomicProductsTaxesDegreesStandardsLaborWeakEnglandConsumersCommunistSocialistTaxpayersIndustriousBasic PrinciplesCannibalismFrugal Author:Dan Smoot
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.” WantHumansLooksDoneBodyGovernmentCareFacesUsedSufferingNamesInjusticeSelfishFormerConsumersCorporateUpsetEmpiresSuspectsExcessFlagsCensorshipVeteranAppreciatedBrutalityManufacturingCoffinsDesertedHuman Suffering Author:Curtis White
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.” PeopleWantPhilosophyProblemGovernmentPoliticalProtectEconomicsConsumersUrgent Author:Milton Friedman
“With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.” GovernmentInterestEffectsMovementRateDebtBoatConsumersInterest RateGovernment Debt Author:Bill Gross
“I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.” PeopleNeedsBelieveGovernmentJobsProtectLawyerConsumersFree MarketInterventionMarketplaceProtectorRegulators Author:John Stossel
“Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.” WayImportantUseGovernmentSocialGroupsPoliticianMajorsConsumersBusinessmanVitalityFamily LifeSocial LifeSapIndicatorsWeakeningPurchasingHealth And Strength Author:Adrian Wilson
“The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.” PeopleRealWisdomGovernmentPoliticsStruggleEconomyEconomicsConstitutionConsumersLiberalismSovereigntyAmerican GovernmentConceded Author:Ndabaningi Sithole
“If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.” IfsGovernmentWould BeBusinessDemocracyConsumersDisturbing Author:Kin Hubbard