Will Miller
Will Miller
Will Milleris an American rower. He is a five time US National Team Member and competed in the Men's eight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics placing 4th. He grew up in Duxbury, MA and received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. His father, Bill Miller, was also a US Olympic rower...
war thinking witch-trials
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.
simple strings-attached drug
Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.
meaningful people risk
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.
government way common
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
government quality decrease
As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.
moving people needs
Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.
marketing regulation research
Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.
government use groups
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.
government people should
To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.
government effort doe
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.
government use wealth
The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.
reality thinking accomplish-nothing
Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.
political special pressure
Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.
government rivers today
Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.