Economist says U.S. on way to totalitarianism

NewsOK.com-The Daily Oklahoman ^ | 11-22-02 | The Oklahoman

[suijuris]

Williams is a strange duck. He's in favor of Southern secession as well.

And thats a bad thing?

Sure is funny how you always seem to show up just in time to give the JBT point of view. Just what is your vocation besides FedGov schill?

[Schatze]

Informants let me know when a Williams gig is on.

Heads up! Walter Williams will be filling in for Rush on Friday, 11/29.

[jonathonandjennifer]

An example of the havoc caused by un-checked Federal government programs:

I and two other engineers here at a midwestern utility spent all day earlier this week surveying the boundary of a piece of utility land that will become a "Blue Karner Butterfly Land Bank", this being a "bank" of butterfly habitat that will allow an equal area of land to be used for utility projects, thus destroying the butterfly habitat there.

I think we are all doomed!

[sinkspur]

Sure is funny how you always seem to show up just in time to give the JBT point of view. Just what is your vocation besides FedGov schill?

Getting under your very thin skin.

[Noumenon]

JMO, but it seems that Professor Williams has been consuming in mass quantities the cannabis brownies offered by the Cato Institute.

Do tell. I sent this article with the following comment to my not-quite-16-year-old twins with the following commentary:

Williams is one of the very few who speaks the truth and calls things by their proper names. And nothing else will bring this home to you more clearly than to look at what’s taken from the first paycheck you get. The real question becomes: “At what point did I become a slave? When I had ten percent of what I earned taken away from me? Twenty five percent? Did I start wearing chains when the government took 35% of everything I earned? How about 50%? At what point do I realize that my life really doesn’t belong to me?“

Needless to say, we have interesting dinner table conversations, and our kids Get It bigtime. So what's the weather like in your Utopia? Care to comment?

[HIDEK6]

Williams is a strange duck. He's in favor of Southern secession as well.

If you read him carefully, you'll fine that he is in favor of secession.

Regional identity has nothing to do with it.

[HIDEK6]

JMO, but it seems that Professor Williams has been consuming in mass quantities the cannabis brownies offered by the Cato Institute.

I'd be more interested in your thoughts concerning his arguments rather than your feelings concerning the Cato Institute.

[HIDEK6]

They are blood-sucking leeches to the taxpayers and the economy.

That might be true, but the reason to oppose their existence is that their establishment was unconstitutional. They all address states' concerns.

[PISANO]

Walt Williams, a protege of Milton Freidman, is as right as rain. The question is when it will happen, NOT if!

[AUgrad]

, "When they take Walter Williams' gun, it will be warmer than he is..."

Great quote!

[Liberty Teeth]

"Just because you vote to take someone's property doesn't make it right."

That nugget of truth will fall on deaf ears.

[wcbtinman]

"Those who don't learn from history are damned to repeat it."

You just wrote your own epitaph. I hope you live long enough to see it.

[u-89]

Sincere thanks for that radio tip! Just the one day? 'Tis a shame. Well like a fine expensive wine one should savor the moments as they are rare.

[Arioch7]

Amen to that!

[Arioch7]

One small point. Mr. Soros is hardly a Libertarian. I think you meant to say "Socialist". :D

[MatthewViti]

So ...in other words people that speak the truth no matter how much it hurts should not be heard from or be there to represent people in our society? Your ideals are twisted, and I hate to break it to you but a great deal of Americans share Mr. Tancredo's views on immigration reform. Wake up America!

[Noumenon]

"Just because you vote to take someone's property doesn't make it right."

That nugget of truth will fall on deaf ears.

Or dead ones, given our present course.

[Radioactive]

You said..."Williams is a strange duck. He's in favor of Southern secession as well."

I say...And why does that make him strange? He's absolutley right. The South had every Constitutional right to secede. That is why all the southern leaders were not tried for treason. They were doing what is and was Constitutional. Read the Federalist and the ANTI Federalist papers and you will see that many states before they were willing to join the Union wanted the right to break up the union if it got too powerful. What the South did was Constituionally correct.

YOU ARE WRONG!!!!!!!

[Arioch7]

I would suggest you go to www.capitalismmagazine.com

I read his articles regularly there. The man is a very qualified economist and is truly one of the great thinkers on Capitalism.

He is one of my favorites anyway.

[Trickyguy]

You are not entitled to not pay 40% of your income to the government.