
“Empire is a pricey, often amoral, business. It is something that many Americans apparently want to know little about as long as the government gives them more welfare programs, even though it means the gradual loss of both economic and political liberty. Still, it is a temptation that has seduced millions of Americans as more and more of them see their livelihoods tied to the warfare/welfare state. This state idolatry corrupts the character of a people, withering away their independence. It progressed so far in Germany by the 1930s that there was no longer any need to speak of overt nationalization.”
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd1204d.asp
Related posts:
Paul Craig Roberts: Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality
Warren Buffett: How inflation swindles the equity investor [1977]
Will Grigg: The Stalinist in the White House
Civil Unrest Coming to America
School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys
Internet Fascism and the Surveillance State
Their Propaganda....Our Propaganda
"When Will They Learn?"
Peter Schiff: Soon in America, retirement will be as rare as a single income household
The Odyssey of Sound Economics
Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals
A Lost Decade for Savers
Stop-and-Frisk: How Government Creates Problems, Then Makes Them Worse
Withdrawing Political Legitimacy
Why The U.S. Job Market Remains Terribly Bleak