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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: RetiredNow who wrote (113694)5/16/2012 7:41:17 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 149317
 
" Cognizance of the relation between a cause and its effect is the first step toward mans orientation in the world and is the intellectual condition of any successful activity. "

" It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process."


Can't argue with those two.

"Every step which leads from capitalism toward [central] planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship."

That's just silly. A new stop light is a "step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship" I suppose.