The Welfare State and the Promise of Protection
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government.
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government.
Our ancestors relied on themselves; we rely on the welfare state.
As interviewed by Mike Smyth, CKNW AM 980. Recorded 21 August 2009.
Central bank's and government's loose monetary and fiscal policies are instrumental in the weakening of the process of real savings formation through the diversion of real savings from wealth generators to non-wealth-generating activities.
On the other hand, a social order weakens these forces when it promises that if the individual's work is hindered by illness or the effects of a trauma, he shall live without work or with little work and suffer no very noticeable reduction in his income.
I will not contend that this scheme is free from all the defects inherent in government interference with economic affairs.
This is not the only instance in which Frank refutes his own arguments. Like most good leftists, Frank dislikes SUVs.