Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“If you support social engineering in one area, what grounds do you have to oppose it in others? A politician who ran for high office promising to strip the national or state government of the power to manage society would surely be buried by his opponent on election day. People are addicted to government management. That’s the world we inhabit. What is the cost of living in such a world? I don’t mean the dollar cost. It’s easy to find the numbers corresponding to the budget, the deficit, the debt, the shrinking of purchasing power because of central-bank money creation, and so on. I’m thinking of cost in a different way. What must we forgo because politicians and bureaucrats — no matter which major party is in office — manage so much of our lives?” (09/20/24)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2024/09/tgif-were-all-social-engineers-now.html