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To: FromTheSidelines

That is it preciously.

As this country slides into the debt chasm, and the coming tyranny of National Socialism, freedom will be an ancient memory. Economic freedom especially.


13 posted on 10/11/2011 10:39:28 AM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: TruthConquers

Personal freedoms spring forth from the foundation - economic freedom. The freedom to keep the results of your own labors. That is how you can exercise every other right you have, and gain the ability to protect those other rights.

Remove a man’s economic freedom, and you have effectively eliminated all of his other freedoms. He has no means to support himself independent of what the Government desires. He will do what the Government demands - or starve.

The best thing we can do worldwide for all people is to export the idea of capitalism and support it as strongly as possible. When people have built some economic freedom, and no longer have to worry about food today and tomorrow, they’ll start looking for more freedoms and opportunities in other areas of their life.

There’s a reason Milton Friedman’s classic tome is called “Capitalism and Freedom”. You cannot have one without the other - ever. They are co-dependent. Too many in the US are rightfully upset with the loss of our freedom but do not acknowledge it’s coming predominantly by the erosion of capitalism.


14 posted on 10/11/2011 10:49:01 AM PDT by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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