Comments on: Individual Rights: The Crumbling Foundation of American Government http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/individual-rights-the-crumbling-foundation-of-american-government/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:29:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Pat http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/individual-rights-the-crumbling-foundation-of-american-government/comment-page-1/#comment-42852 Pat Sun, 15 May 2011 16:53:51 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/individual-rights-the-crumbling-foundation-of-american-government/#comment-42852 Whether the justification arises through Wall Street's justification of property losses, charity justifications of need and beneficial outcome, or health care special interest justification of socialized medicine as equitable, the need to take from Peter to pay Paul is the principle by which entitlement mentality takes hold, and creates the torrents that are symbolized by the decision to allow the MS River to flood one area rather than another. However it is justified, one area still gets flooded. There is no preventative potential effective enough to work. Whether it is outsourcing, CEO salaries, military might, or pension and Social Security welfare, spending beyond capacity creates problems for everyone, either collectively, or individually. Whether the justification arises through Wall Street’s justification of property losses, charity justifications of need and beneficial outcome, or health care special interest justification of socialized medicine as equitable, the need to take from Peter to pay Paul is the principle by which entitlement mentality takes hold, and creates the torrents that are symbolized by the decision to allow the MS River to flood one area rather than another. However it is justified, one area still gets flooded. There is no preventative potential effective enough to work.

Whether it is outsourcing, CEO salaries, military might, or pension and Social Security welfare, spending beyond capacity creates problems for everyone, either collectively, or individually.

]]> By: Brief Meeting Tomorrow and a Monopoly of Force « MLWGS Students for Liberty http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/individual-rights-the-crumbling-foundation-of-american-government/comment-page-1/#comment-18166 Brief Meeting Tomorrow and a Monopoly of Force « MLWGS Students for Liberty Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:12:08 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/individual-rights-the-crumbling-foundation-of-american-government/#comment-18166 [...] other essay is a lighter (I say that, but…) read. It’s an essay titled “Individual Rights: The Crumbling Foundation of American Government” by Robert Higgs. The article gives a brief overview of the role of just some of the founding [...] [...] other essay is a lighter (I say that, but…) read. It’s an essay titled “Individual Rights: The Crumbling Foundation of American Government” by Robert Higgs. The article gives a brief overview of the role of just some of the founding [...]

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