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The Illustrated Road to Serfdom (Short Cartoon Describing Planned Economies)
Mises.org ^ | 1944 | Friedrich Hayek

Posted on 02/20/2009 1:37:26 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat

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To: FARS
BTW as a side bar Iran has decided to eradicate the Bahai faith in the islamic Mullah regime.

Mullah's are afraid of Bahai - strong good ideas can trample weak ideas.

101 posted on 02/24/2009 6:22:17 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM will trumpet every hard luck housing story they can find to undermine Santelli.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
My pleasure. First off, the message of The Road is that socialism eventually ends in tyranny.

Chap X is "Why The Worst Get on Top." Totalitarian governments are naturally founded by people far closer to thugs than saints. It has to be, because the old traditions and structures must be swept away. The unscrupulous and uninhibited characters are the ones to do it. Rahm Emanuel, an amoral barbarian of the Left is the perfect choice.

A quote which perfectly fits the first month of Obamanation: "We must here return for a moment to the position which preceded the suppression of democratic institutions and the creation of totalitarian regimes. In this stage it is the general demand for quick and determined government action that is the dominating element in the situation, dissatisfaction with the slow and cumbersome course of democratic procedure which makes action for action's sake the goal. It is then the man or the party who seems strong and resolute enough "to get things done" who exercises the greatest appeal." Porkulus, takeover of the census, kill talk radio.

Power is retained, "not in the assured votes of huge numbers at occasional elections but in the absolute and unreserved support of a smaller but more thoroughly organized body." ACORN?

"They had set themselves a task which only the ruthless, ready to disregard the barriers of accepted morals can execute."

"He will be able to obtain the support of all the docile and gullible, who have no strong convictions of their own, but are prepared to accept a ready made system of values if it is only drummed into their ears sufficiently loudly and frequently."

"It is, as it were the lowest common denominator which unites the largest number of people.

I pulled the quotes from the first four pages of Ch X. You get the idea.

102 posted on 02/24/2009 6:26:16 AM PST by Jacquerie (Hayek is the antidote to Alinsky.)
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To: Jacquerie

Got it - thanks for the very helpful explanation.


103 posted on 02/24/2009 6:29:34 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


104 posted on 02/24/2009 8:04:38 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: FARS

Will do..


105 posted on 02/24/2009 9:21:39 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

This would be a lot funnier if it were a joke.


106 posted on 02/24/2009 9:30:39 AM PST by LoneStarC
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To: holdonnow

Wow!!

Hayek’s illustrations are not only historic but unfortunately eerily prophetic.


107 posted on 02/24/2009 10:24:11 AM PST by CedarDave (Pray that during the next four years we don't lose the America we so love.)
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To: FARS
     
108 posted on 02/24/2009 3:01:28 PM PST by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: Recovering_Democrat

bttt


109 posted on 02/25/2009 7:47:12 AM PST by GOPJ (The MSM will trumpet every hard luck housing story they can find to undermine Santelli.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

BTTT!


110 posted on 02/25/2009 7:57:47 AM PST by paulycy ("I'd hate to think of what a group of caffeinated Freepers would do..." - democratic underground)
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To: paulycy; GOPJ

Send the link to this thread to your friends! Let them see what is happening! Anyone can read this in a short period of time, it will certainly help them see the light.

Even if they don’t agree NOW, as time goes on, the images will stick with them...they’ll eventually come around.

I am living testimony to the fact: liberals CAN change. :)


111 posted on 02/25/2009 10:49:28 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: CedarDave

see post 111.


112 posted on 02/25/2009 10:50:12 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Hayek was mentioned in David Brook’s column yesterday. He listed some other writers along the lines of Hayek - we might want to list excepts from all of them... We could be walking into dangerous times - with the best of intentions.


113 posted on 02/25/2009 1:30:11 PM PST by GOPJ (People who can't use the new phone system are trying to redesign half the US economy - Brooks)
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To: CedarDave; RecoveringDem
Hayek’s illustrations are not only historic but unfortunately eerily prophetic.

We might be repeating history - one of the worst episodes in the world's history. And this time it won't be "the Joos" it'll be middle class conservatives ( the vast right wing conspiracy), in short - us.

Clinton tried to demonize us - and failed because his wife spilled the beans. Still, we're the biggest threat to a totalitarian takeover - and the insanity Hayek speaks of requires a scapegoat. We would be a twofer.

114 posted on 02/25/2009 1:36:38 PM PST by GOPJ (People who can't use the new phone system are trying to redesign half the US economy - Brooks)
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To: CedarDave; Recovering_Democrat
Hayek’s illustrations are not only historic but unfortunately eerily prophetic.

We might be repeating history - one of the worst episodes in the world's history. And this time it won't be "the Joos" it'll be middle class conservatives ( the vast right wing conspiracy), in short - us.

Clinton tried to demonize us - and failed because his wife spilled the beans. Still, we're the biggest threat to a totalitarian takeover - and the insanity Hayek speaks of requires a scapegoat. We would be a twofer.

115 posted on 02/25/2009 1:37:42 PM PST by GOPJ (People who can't use the new phone system are trying to redesign half the US economy - Brooks)
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To: Richard Poe

You’ll understand this post more than most - enjoy.


116 posted on 02/25/2009 2:19:52 PM PST by GOPJ (People who can't use the new phone system are trying to redesign half the US economy - Brooks)
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To: notatard?

KEEPIN’ THE THREAD ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


117 posted on 02/26/2009 11:40:33 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

thanks for the thread.

if you don’t have an account with tiny pic, how does one find their pictures they uploaded?


118 posted on 03/16/2009 5:52:00 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion, Euthanasia & FOCA - - don't Obama and the Democrats just kill ya!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

A ‘wow... just WOW’ ping.


119 posted on 03/16/2009 7:04:23 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (May God continue to bless America. <><)
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29

thanks for the bump. this story has to get out.


120 posted on 03/16/2009 7:07:14 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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