By admin on August 14, 2009
“It is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.” (Frederica Bastiat, The Law)
So what of socialism? How is it identified? What are its practices? Its philosophy? Its habits? Its damning influence? And who are the people who promote this?
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By admin on August 13, 2009
Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) advocate of freedom, liberty and free enterprise. His brief essays and writings spoke truth to the dangers of socialism and big government run and operated programs. Two of the more famous The Broken Window and the Candlemakers Petition are simple and yet to the point.
Bastiat often spoke of the immediate consequences as well as the long term consequences of each government action. Many if not most decisions politicians make focus primarily on the short term goals (re-election, voter base, etc) while ignoring the long term effects on the people which are sometime not apparent till long after the politician has left office. Read More…
Posted in Think Tank | Tagged capitalism, education, freedom, government, liberty, politics, prosperity
By admin on August 11, 2009
W. Cleon Skousen put together a comprehensive list of not only the importance of providing checks and balances but also a specific list outlining such.
Our first President George Washington felt it so important and necessary to maintaining a free society as outlined in the Constitution that he spoke to this separation of powers in his Farewell Address:
“It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. Read More…
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By admin on August 11, 2009
One of the primary purposes of the Constitution of The United States is the prevention of political power gravitating toward and centralizing within the Federal Government.
As more and more of the decision-making process is removed from the people and transferred to those in the central government the freedom and liberty of the people is diminished.
The KEY to preserving freedom IF the people want to – as this is a personal and combined choice of this democratic-republic we live in rests in the attitude and understanding of individuals towards those principles that have already been worked through and secured by our Constitution. Read More…
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By admin on August 11, 2009
(Alexis de Tocqueville)
“The political parties which I style great are those which cling to principles more than to their consequences; to general, and not to especial cases; to ideas, and not to men. These parties are usually distinguished by a nobler character, by more generous passions, more genuine convictions, and a more bold and open conduct than the others. In them private interest, which always plays the chief part in political passions, is more studiously veiled under the pretext of the public good; and it may even be sometimes concealed from the eyes of the very persons whom it excites and impels. Read More…
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