{"id":67753,"date":"2018-08-24T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67753"},"modified":"2018-08-23T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:57:02","slug":"the-power-of-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67753","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of \u201cNo\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most powerful word in the free market is “no”.<\/p>\n

With the simple word “no”, each individual consumer votes every day on the products and services they do or, vastly more often, don’t want to spend their scarce, precious resources on.<\/p>\n

Were it not for the word “no”, cell phones would still weigh 2 pounds and cost $10 a minute; cars would still have two wheel drum brakes; VHS tapes would still rule the home-video market.<\/p>\n

The lack of the term “no” – or, at least, it’s complete on importance to central planners, who are all about their various pet “yeses”,- is one of the great flies, if not the fatal weakness, and socialism.<\/p>\n

Without the word “no”, there would be no free market. Also, no improvement in goods, services or, really, the entire human condition.<\/p>\n

With that in mind \u2013 people are saying “no” in record numbers to government subsidized mass transit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Federal Transit Administration released\u00a0June 2018 data<\/a>\u00a0revealing that the transit industry has now experienced four straight years of ridership losses.\u00a0June 30\u00a0was\u00a0the end of the fiscal year for most transit agencies, and ridership has fallen in every fiscal year since 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nationwide, the total decline since 2014 was 7 percent, but declines in many urban areas were much larger:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 29 percent in Memphis;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 27\u00a0percent in Charlotte;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 26 percent in Miami;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 25 percent in Albuquerque;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 24 percent in Cleveland;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 22 percent in St. Louis;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 21 percent in Milwaukee, Sacramento, and Virginia Beach; and<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 20 percent in Los Angeles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article Dash by the excellent Randall O’Toole \u2013 notes that the feds are blaming a lot of factors for this tree fall Dash ride healing services for the middle class, and the simple fact that most poor people own cars, and most people can reach more better paying jobs in 10 minutes by car than an hour by transit.<\/p>\n

But they all boiled down to one thing \u2013 people everywhere, nationwide, of all economic groups (except for a tiny fringe of “car free” middle class trend follower is) are saying “no” to being jammed into trains to go with the government has deemed they need to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most powerful word in the free market is “no”. With the simple word “no”, each individual consumer votes every day on the products and services they do or, vastly more often, don’t want to spend their scarce, precious resources on. Were it not for the word “no”, cell phones would still weigh 2 pounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67772,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67753\/revisions\/67772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}