Posted on 04/30/2016 6:59:09 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
A basic truism of economics is that if you subsidize something you get more of it and if you penalize something you get less
What we learn before we turn eighteen becomes the common sense of our later life. Just as the vast majority of people after careful consideration of all the candidates and the issues end up voting for the same party as their parents so too most people can never break free of the paradigm impressed upon them as they grew up.
Many people repeat the time worn phrase, “Those who don’t learn from History are doomed to repeat it.” As a person who has read and studied History on a daily basis for more than fifty years, one of the major lessons I have learned is that the general public never learn from History, mainly because they don’t read or study it. Perhaps they were spoon-fed a few classes as they meandered through the American education factory but they never tried to do more than memorize enough to regurgitate at the proper time to move on. What was presented was based upon biased agenda of whoever picked the texts and prepared the lessons. The only way to get a broader view is to read and study.
This article has a strange headline that is not realized in the body of the article. Regardless, I like this quote:
Ronald Reagan said, “Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”
Our country is becoming creepingly socialist as even the most basic conservative or libertarian will accept some socialist government programs.
The “robbing Peter to pay Paul”. Peter and Paul?
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