RonDog's profile page CLICK HERE to return to the FreeRepublic.com forum "...Hayek said that government planning would make society less liveable, more brutal, more despotic. Socialism in all its forms is contrary to freedom...Further steps down this road, he said, can only end in the abolition of effective liberty for everyone. Capitalism, he wrote, is the only system of economics compatible with human dignity, prosperity, and liberty. To the extent we move away from that system, we empower the worst people in society to manage what they do not understand." - from mises.org