Posted on 09/06/2009 3:20:25 PM PDT by rellimpank
The main point that probably deserves further mention about last week's Dead Kennedy Funeral Parade was the behavior of the press, which wept and moaned and gnashed its collective teeth with hardly a dissenting soul to say, "Enough, already," as though the corpse of a pharaoh was headed for its final hoedown with the sun god. I'm surprised they didn't decide to embalm the guy so people could troop past and touch the yellowed cadaver like they've been doing with Vlad "The Impaler" Lenin in Moscow for the past 70 years.
It was all further evidence that statism has now become something close to a national religion, the subtext being that great things can be accomplished only through the giant wealth transfer schemes now under way in Washington.
Did anyone notice an equivalent outpouring of grief and tribute when free-market economist Rose Friedman died in California Aug. 18? When we lost Murray Rothard or Friedrich Hayek or Ludwig von Mises?
Practically every month dies some entrepreneur or industrialist whose hard work improved our lives far more than Ted Kennedy ever did, giving us better, safer, less expensive cell phones, car engines, laptops, refrigerated produce -- you name it.
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Vin Bump.
Belloc says it best.
Epitaph on the Politician Himself
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept : for I had longed to see him hanged.
~~Hillarie Belloc
Great post. A sound mind and an ability to communicate reasoned thought are such a rarity these days.
Meanwhile, most Americans, including most Democrats, were watching re-runs and movies...The Weather Channel..
It was a fun read. Another anarcho-capitalist twit trying to take us to Libertarian Utopia where gov’t is fangless, and the Mob will end up running things.
parsy, who is so tired of hearing this econo-babble
Ludwig von Mises bump.
May his intuitive soul rest in Paece
A government 70% its current size would hardly be “fangless”.
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