Posted on 09/12/2021 4:31:34 PM PDT by ex91B10
Another great Paul Harvey presentation.
The video has been censored by google apparently.
A transcript of Paul Harvey’s words:
http://www.mediaaccess.hu/userspace/pdf_files/PAUL%20HARVEY%20FREEDOM%20TO%20CHAINS%201965.pdf
A small excerpt:
“About 290 years after Christ a Roman Emperor named Diocletian took over. He really grabbed the bull by the horns. He took over in a period of turmoil and severe depression. The first thing Diocletian did was call in the gold and closed the banks and raised the taxes. He reduced the power of the Senate. Delegated its power to a lot of little government bureaus.
“Do you know they even had a Transportation Act back there, prescribing the fee required to rent one laden jackass per mile and at today’s rate of exchange it would have amounted to about 1/8th cent per mile? Which meant that in order to make a profit a jack ass would have to carry five passengers? That was simply beyond the capacity of the jack ass.
“Diocletian put millions of people on the public payroll, but when this failed to do the job, the country was still in trouble, he asked more personal powers for himself. For a brief while, incidentally, they were standby powers, but then he used them, all at once. He froze wages, he froze prices, he froze jobs, he stopped profits, he dictated to the farmer what he should plant, when and how he should sell it and for how much and he rationed food and what happened? The labor market closed down, incentive was gone. Farm life became dependent on bureaucratic red tape.”
“We wanted security. And they gave us chains and we were secure.”
The son of a famous news anchor was walking home alone one day. He came upon some dogs, all different colors, that were locked behind a neighbors fence.
Wanting to attack him, the dogs immediately started barking and biting at the fence. Annoyed, the boy stopped what he was doing and began to tease the dogs by lunging at them again and again, making them angrier and angrier.
Once the boy saw the dogs had become sufficiently blinded by rage he swung back and kicked the fence hard. Having nothing else to act on the dogs set upon them selves and tore each other to pieces.
Laughing to himself the boy walked home. When he told his dad what he had done, the celebrated journalist also laughed and said, “and that’s how you MAKE the news, boy. He’s a natural, this kid.”
I enjoyed his noon news and 'the rest of the story' broadcasts.
“I enjoyed his noon news and ‘the rest of the story’ broadcasts.”
Me too. Always uplifting.
Really good, thanks
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