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"A walk down memory lane with Hillary "

It's like an acid flashback.

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Article claims that Hillary recommended Craig Livingstone. I don’t know that that is a proven fact. (I doubt that it is not a fact, but that is a different matter). In any case, somebody hired Craig Livingstone, and nobody was fingered for having done so - whoever did so was too important to be thrown under the bus. Anyone in the Clinton White House at the time who seriously wanted to dissociate themselves from the Filegate scandal resigned and left the WH.

And that was nobody. Certainly not Hillary.

Craig Livingstone walked. (Where is he now, anyway - working for the Clinton Foundation?) And then there was Billy Dale, an innocent and diligent government worker. And a Democrat, at that. Him Hillary attempted to frame, humiliate - and jail.

It takes a special kind of stupid to vote for Hillary even in the primaries when your choice was a fellow Democrat. Let alone in the general election.

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HILLARY wrote "It Takes a Village," demonstrating her socialist viewpoint.

I haven’t read that tome, surprisingly enough

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. . . but there is something to be said - much to be said - of the concept, rightly understood.

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . .
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

So indeed, it does “take a village” to raise a child - or to do much else.

I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Eberhard and Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.

And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make pencils - and everything else.

So, “you didn't build that? Somebody else made that happen?” Yes - but that “somebody else” was not government. The “somebody” was more like everybody - mostly very indirectly.

Government planning is merely interference in society’s subtle workings by people who have nowhere near the competence needed to make such large decisions and be responsible for them. It is nothing more than the irresponsible separation of responsibility from authority, in violation of the first principle of good management. Improvement in efficiency via government “planning” is a paper tiger.