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Cafe Hayek — where orders emerge
I cannot say what I think about the President's thoughts but they anger me. His logic:
1. We force you to live with the poor quality products governments "provide" (provide with the money taken from the citizens at gunpoint) because we have more guns that you do, Mr. Citizen
2. We moralize that you are a participant in some contract - the social contract - that you have never seen, nor consented to
3. We celebrate the "accomplishments" of collectivism (going to the moon - was that really good? I'd like to see the cost/benefit analysis. Was the moon thing something "we" accomplished? If so, that's because our relatively high levels of liberty financed the effort.), and assume it wouldn't have been done better without the coercive force of the government.
In other words, government is a self licking ice cream cone. We force you to do it our way, we justify the choice by invoking a non-existent contract, and we use the result to justify more use of force.
No thanks, Mr. President, I'll pass on that template for the future. (expletives deleted)
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