About MLLG & George Noga
Information about More Liberty – Less Government (MLLG)
Begun in 2007 with 150 subscribers, MLLG’s readership has grown exponentially. We publish a post each Sunday, with short breaks for summer and Christmas. Our 600 to 800 word posts can be read in a few minutes. We blog about politics, economics and culture. Certain topics have emerged as signature issues; these are: (1) climate change; (2) the spending crisis; and (3) school choice. We aim to provide pithy, provocative analysis and perspective not found elsewhere. We are fact-based and principled, eschew ad hominem attacks and do not demonize those with whom we disagree.
Our name says it all! We unabashedly approach matters from a more liberty – less government perspective, showcasing the blessings of liberty and the evils of government. We don’t care much for either major political party; however, we do not wear blinders and understand that one of them will lead us to perdition faster than the other. We respect facts and logic and follow those stars wherever they lead.
Mission Statement
Our mission is “To give our children’s children that infinitesimally better chance for liberty.” It is a cri de coeur for our beloved republic. We are standing athwart America’s steady march toward socialism screaming “stop”. We are mindful that of the 115 billon humans who have trod this earth, fewer than 1% lived their lives in liberty. Alexander Hamilton’s eternal question lingers, “Are societies of men capable of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or forever destined to depend on accident and force?”
As Hamilton knew, whether any society of men gets its politics right or wrong affects every aspect of life and even life itself. If we get our politics right, we live our lives in freedom and prosperity. If we get our politics wrong, happiness and prosperity are forfeit and our lives are brutish and brief. Our children’s children will live lives of quiet desperation in a Clockwork Orange world of staggering debt and climate madness, surrounded by nuclear armed enemies committed to our destruction. The gods of the copybook headings, with terror and slaughter, will return.
About the Author
George Noga has backgrounds in business, economics and politics. He has an MBA degree in finance, CPA and holds numerous other professional designations. Early in his career, he worked in corporate finance in New York City. After 10 years in the corporate world, he started his own business – a financial services firm which became one of the top 50 privately owned firms in Central Florida.
Noga has been involved in national, state and local politics for over half a century. While in graduate school, he worked full time on tax and economic policy for a gubernatorial campaign that defied all odds to unseat an incumbent governor – a first in Florida. In that campaign Noga worked closely with some of the top national political operatives. During the Nixon Administration he was in line for a subcabinet appointment when the emerging Watergate scandal halted Senate confirmations.
After moving back to Florida, Noga served on the Industrial Development Authority. He wrote an op-ed column for a local newspaper for many years and also headed a major arts organization. He served on the advisory board of the James Madison Institute, a statewide think tank and is one of only a few people ever designated as a “JMI Angel” for his work on school choice. He also cofounded and cochaired the Center-Right Coalition of Central Florida
George Noga’s signal accomplishment was starting the school choice movement in Florida. The organization he started and ran for its first 10 years (now Step Up For Students) provides over 100,000 scholarships annually at a cost of $700 million. He also served for many years on the board of Children First America, which started school voucher programs in over 100 US cities.
George Noga has been retired for several years. He and his wife reside outside of Orlando, Florida and spend their summers in Whitefish, Montana.
