Re: Republicans ruined the Economy once - we should let them try again

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/22/AR2010092206643.html

On Oct 12, 10:36 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> At 09:52 AM 10/12/2010, you wrote:
>
> >maybe this time, they'll get it right - if they don't change anything.
>
> Can you provide some specifics.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Regard$,
> --MJ
>
> And is not this the point that we have now
> reached? What is the cry going up everywhere,
> from all ranks and classes? All for one! When we
> say the word one we think of ourselves, and what
> we demand is to receive an unearned share in the
> fruits of the labour of all. In other words, we
> are creating an organized system of plunder.
> Unquestionably, simple out-and-out plunder is so
> clearly unjust as to be repugnant to us;but
> thanks to the motto, all for one, we can allay
> our qualms of conscience. We impose on others the
> duty of working for us. then, we arrogate to
> ourselves the right to enjoy the fruits of other
> men's labour. We call upon the state, the law, to
> enforce our so-called duty, to protect our
> so-called right, and we end in the fantastic
> situation of robbing one another in the name of
> brotherhood. We live at other men's expense, and
> then call ourselves heroically self-sacrificing
> for so doing. Oh, the unaccountable folly of the
> human mind! Oh, the deviousness of greed! It is
> not enough that each of us tries to increase our
> share at the expense of other; it is not enough
> that we want to profit from labour that we have
> not performed. we even convince ourselves that in
> the process we are sublime examples of
> self-sacrifice;we almost go so far as to call our
> unselfishness Christlike. We have become so blind
> that we do not see that the sacrifices that cause
> us to weep with admiration as we contemplate
> ourselves are not made by us at all, but are
> exacted by us of others. -- Frédéric Bastiat

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