Posted on 10/23/2014 2:09:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Next Monday, October 27 marks the 50th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s iconic “Time For Choosing” speech. It was a speech that sparked the modern Conservative Movement, ignited a fire in the hearts of conservatives, and launched Ronald Reagan’s public policy career.
This week as part of a year-long “Time for Choosing: The Next Generation” initiative, Young America’s Foundation is releasing a series of videos in conjunction with the anniversary of this significant speech. The fourth video focuses on the private sector.
Ronald Reagan understood the evils of communism and socialist policies. He knew by diminishing the role of the private sector, government stood to benefit and subsequently control the American people.
One of the most powerful lines of his 1964 speech was, "Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling the people. When a government does that it must use force and use coercion to achieve its purpose."
In his "Time for Choosing" speech Reagan also said, "They also knew--those Founding Fathers--that outside its legitimate function government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector."
That statement is even more meaningful today, as we face the disastrous economic consequences of Obama's socialized healthcare system...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Moon shot? Took lots of organizing ... NASA? True the gov’t doesn’t have factories and the private sector does ....
I beg to differ. The Feds blow money away at a rate the private sector could never hope to match.
They steel and destroy better than private citizens.
A rare exception in proof of the rule.
Today's 'NASA' being the rule in proof of RR's assertion.
Allow the free market be FREE! Let freedom ring and American private enterprise will be the envy of the world!
Tragic that that was then and this is now - NASA reaching out to islam per 0bama ....
GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING AS WELL OR ECONOMICALLY AS THE PRIVATE SECTORIn totally unrelated news </sarcasm> , wire service journalism does nothing. Period.Socialists are simply journalists who don’t have a job at a newspaper. Either one does nothing but complain about the people who actually do.
When a critic gains authority and thus, seemingly, responsibility for doing something, suddenly it isn’t results, but good intentions which alone matter.”If you own a business, you didn’t build that” is simply cynicism, the extreme of useless criticism. But if you’re a “liberal,” you actually think it is a cogent argument.
Not having researched it, I'd still hazard to guess that following the attainment of the moon goal and the scuttling of Apollo, most of those young engineers, etc got the hell outta Dodge.
Fortunately, FR's roster used to include some old seasoned missileers who might hopefully stop by and disabuse me of that notion if it's in error.
Doubtless some stayed on to work on the shuttle etc, but early NASA ought perhaps be viewed as an entirely separate, temporary entity .. Tranquility Base via subcontractors, as it were.
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