Wednesday, October 17, 2012

THOUGHTS ON LIBERTY

The following came from Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute:

Barry Goldwater Quote --
"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. … I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
The bad news is that Barry got his you-know-what kicked in the 1964 election. On the other hand, America did elect a president that said “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
And a 2011 poll that most Americans—unlike their European counterparts—do not believe it is government’s job to guarantee that “nobody is in need.”
DWD

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