It's amazing how as much as things change they stay the same.
Sending out a call to all Democrats to READ THIS PIECE!
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To: ScratInTheHat
2 posted on
03/06/2008 8:00:36 PM PST by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: ScratInTheHat
Second best political economy book in history, right behind “Free To Choose.”
3 posted on
03/06/2008 8:01:47 PM PST by
Uncle Miltie
(New York Times Endorsed!!!)
To: ScratInTheHat
4 posted on
03/06/2008 8:03:30 PM PST by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: ScratInTheHat
They read. They just use it as instructions on how to create a serfdom.
5 posted on
03/06/2008 8:07:59 PM PST by
alecqss
To: ScratInTheHat
The Road to Serfdom![](http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/image3.jpg)
But won't there be an endless summer?
6 posted on
03/06/2008 8:08:19 PM PST by
the invisib1e hand
(dehumanize: the model prescribes the required behavior. disincentives ensure compliance.)
To: ScratInTheHat
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world [but England] where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen?On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty. Repeal that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday, and St. Tuesday, will cease to be holidays. SIX days shalt thou labour, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.
—Benjamin Franklin
7 posted on
03/06/2008 8:09:06 PM PST by
MarkeyD
(Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
To: ScratInTheHat
... 'Conservative socialism'... has a nice ring to it, similar to "Compassionate Conservatism" ...
9 posted on
03/06/2008 8:15:58 PM PST by
Ken522
To: Travis McGee; TigerLikesRooster
11 posted on
03/06/2008 8:17:30 PM PST by
Perdogg
To: ScratInTheHat
Sending out a call to all Democrats to READ THIS PIECE! I doubt it'd make any difference. Democrats lack the insight to see themselves in anything that damns their neo-socialist tyranny.
12 posted on
03/06/2008 8:17:48 PM PST by
Digital Sniper
(Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
To: ScratInTheHat
“Road to Serfdom,” required reading.
14 posted on
03/06/2008 8:21:33 PM PST by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: ScratInTheHat
Thanks very much for posting. Belated WELCOME ABOARD!
Bump for morning read with a good cup of coffee.
16 posted on
03/06/2008 8:24:30 PM PST by
PGalt
To: ScratInTheHat
To: ScratInTheHat
Business councils have been around for a very long time, as have unions and the like.
18 posted on
03/06/2008 8:27:45 PM PST by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
To: ScratInTheHat
There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would posses...Who can seriously doubt that the power which a millionaire, who may be my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest bureaucrat possesses who wields the coercive power of the state and on whose discretion it depends how I am allowed to live and work? Should be posted on the wall of every schoolroom in the U.S. No, the world. Will it? LOLOLOL.
19 posted on
03/06/2008 8:28:48 PM PST by
Tribune7
(How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
To: ScratInTheHat
BTW - Olasky’s “The Tragedy of American Compassion” is well worth the read. And I second Friedman's “Freedom to Choose” which is what made me cross over from liberalism (feelings) to conservatism (common sense) when I was in my early 20s.
To: ScratInTheHat
22 posted on
03/06/2008 8:45:32 PM PST by
libbylu
(I voted for Nixon,Ford,Reagan,Bush,Dole,Bush. NO WAY MCCAIN.)
To: ScratInTheHat
27 posted on
03/06/2008 9:25:19 PM PST by
jim-x
(God help America survive its enemies within.)
To: ScratInTheHat
This book should be read alongside C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. These are both two of the best, most prescient books I’ve ever read.
28 posted on
03/06/2008 9:45:42 PM PST by
aruanan
To: ScratInTheHat
29 posted on
03/06/2008 11:00:34 PM PST by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Refusing to calm down since the Waco massacre.)
To: wintertime
30 posted on
03/07/2008 12:39:53 AM PST by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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