The Demise of Conscience - a must read!
Posted August 24th, 2008 by scrosnoe
The Demise of Conscience by Jacob G Hornberger As libertarians have long pointed out, both the welfare state and the warfare state have brought immeasurable damage to our country.
With its various programs of confiscatory taxation of income and capital to accomplish its coercive redistribution of wealth, the welfare state has brought standards of living lower than otherwise would have been the case. This is especially true for those at the bottom of the economic ladder, who oftentimes spend large portions of their lives as dependent wards of the state rather than as productive, self-reliant people in society.
The damage from the warfare state has been even greater: terrorist blowback, torture, rendition, suspension of habeas corpus and civil liberties, disregard of constitutional constraints on power, wars of aggression and foreign occupations, governmental secrecy, assaults on privacy, and, of course, an ever-growing military-industrial complex.
[Editor's note: well worth the read - please share with your friends if you agree! I highly recommend that you place Lew Rockwell in your rss feeds. Check out Hornberger's Future of Freedom Foundation as well (see tag line in the actual article). We cannot continue down the path we are on without bankrupting the nation. The root of the problem is spiritual. I continue to cry from the depth of my being repent and turn and see what God will do on our behalf - quickly please!]/sc
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