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Our Road to Serfdom

Harold Kildow writes: Hayek's classic treatment of the titanic struggle between government control and human liberty resonates more truly every sad day of this era of Hope and Change. (How's that working out for you, by the way?) I'm thinking we should call it what it is--an era of Coercion and Tyranny by would-be despots.

Give a listen to this PAC ad for a startling rendering of the facts we now face in this struggle over how we are to be governed. If we don't change course, we will soon have no say in anything that comes down from on high, except to ratify it after the fact. Our lords and masters will simply dictate to us, in the manner of Latin American dictators or Iranian mullahs. And hasn't Obama been inordinately deferential to these guys by the way?



-- Harold Kildow (Ph.D. Fordham Univ.) is associate blogger at Principalities and Powers.
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America Conforming to the 80/20 Rule

Listen to this conversation between a guy disputing his Verizon bill with a Verizon rep AND then the Verizon supervisor. The Verizon people simply cannot understand the difference between 0.002 cents and $0.002, thus they charged him 100x what they should have. In the end, the supervisor calls it a "difference of opinion"(!).



How can the republic--and our liberties along with it--survive with this sort of thing going on?

Remember Pareto's Principle, or the 80/20 rule. This rule is that a minority of input produces the majority of results. I suspect that 20% of the population is carrying the other 80%. Twenty per cent work hard. 20% are competent. 20% pay almost all of the taxes.

That is not what made America great.
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