It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government, where it can be administered in the interests of the people as a whole. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1946&_f=md000326

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/workers/images/1898-ERphoto.gif

http://mises.org/daily/3980

my own horn.
Speech at Government sucks day part 1.... more funny than issue related....

Speech at Government Sucks Day part 2 more issue related but funny.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro’ his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must await with patience the workings of an overruling providence, & hope that that is preparing the deliverance of these, our suffering brethren. When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a god of justice will awaken to their distress, and by diffusing light & liberality among their oppressors, or at length by his exterminating thunder, manifest his attention to the things of this world, and that they are not left to the guidance of a blind fatality." -- Thomas Jefferson

Excerpt from his Letter to Jean Nicolas Demeunier, June 26, 1786

"How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of another variety of 'security.' We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system." -- U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)

Unfortunately however, it's not about the "War on Drugs" or saving kids or anything else. It's about profit. Money. The drug war is probably our country's largest economy. Politicians, judges, lawyers, police officers, deputy sheriffs, jailers, prison guards, social workers, probation and parole officers, a third of the military, Customs, FBI, DEA, IRS, U.S. Marshals. The drug war makes these people’s house and car payments at least in part. The drug war is about continuing to expend resources on an issue that will not go away. They'll never legalize it. There's too much money to be made fighting it and too many jobs at stake to make it legal. But it is what they should do, they just won't. -- "Just a guy"

HT: Wilton D. Alston
http://www.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston-arch.html

Nor is our Government to be maintained or our Union preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of the several States. In thus attempting to make our General Government strong we make it weak. Its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence; not in its control, but in its protection; not in binding the States more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit. -- Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank of the United States (1832)

Healthcare should be free, as should food, clothing, shelter, cars, HDTVs, cable TV, iphones, and space travel. -- kingstu

http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/a-health-care-manifesto.html