by MrBill » Mon 11 Dec 2006, 03:49:17
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'A')ctually, I like MrBill's sig about the entitlement state. It succinctly points to the crux of our problem. We'll all be flailing to keep our 'entitlements' (for some, welfare/SSI checks; for others, good roads and cheap houses), and with the passing of that, so goes the middle class.
Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for it. I just paraphrased it from Frederic Bastiat's 1848 essay entitled Government, but it is applicable today as it was then. As you point out, more perhaps?
Government, by Frederic Bastiat
Or as Cube recently wrote: "Suburbia will die when governments can no longer afford to maintain freeways and not because people could no longer afford cars."
Also, well put. Cheers.
The organized state is a wonderful invention whereby everyone can live at someone else's expense.