The press and many people, the public if you will permit me to use the term, panicked when Perry labeled Social Security as a Ponzi scheme that is unconstitutional. The panic was precisely because the truth was being stated on a public platform where it would be heard by many.
One of the reasons you are not familiar with some of these quotes that clearly should be taught to every school child is because public education is an oxymoron. Public education is manipulated in a way that serves as the politician's propaganda machine paid for with tax dollars. Public schools are much closer to being brain-washing child daycare centers than most people realize or would even dare to consider.
There is a great deal more to come from Bastiat. Our soon to be published article on what makes "voting" important when it should actually be an essential right that is an enormous inconvenience that should most often be avoided comes straight from Bastiat's genius.
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