DO GOODERS DOING BAD. Incrementally, progressive liberals will turn this country into a dung heap, and they wont even notice the effects of their grand schemes and then increasing the dosage. That is the extent of their reasoning abilities. Big government conservatives will accomplish the same effect using a different tack. I have plenty of grand schemes myself. The difference is, I dont want to impose them on anyone using the power of the state. I only want to use the power of reason operating from a set of a priori accepted assumptions, most of which were learned by the time I entered kindergarten. QUOTE The substitution of economic planning for the market economy removes all freedom and leaves to the individual merely the right to obey. The authority directing all economic matters controls all aspects of a man’s life and activities. It is the only employer. All labor becomes compulsory labor because the employee must accept what the chief deigns to offer him. The economic tsar determines what and how much of each the consumer may consume. There is no sector of human life in which a decision is left to the individual’s value judgments. The authority assigns a definite task to him, trains him for his job, and employs him at the place and in the manner it deems expedient. UNQUOTE - Ludwig von Mises (Human Action, p. 284; p. 287)
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 04:13:14 +0000