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Entry: Greenspan's Gambits Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/greenspans_gambits#5818 Post contents: Adriana sed: “Welfare rewards sloth, drunkenness, and bastardy? How about inheritance? Isn’t it the knowledge that she’s got millions waiting for her that leads Paris Hilton to make a spectacle of herself, giving an extremely bad example to all young girls?” Good point, Adriana! You might also give the example of the President of the United States, a complete failure at every business venture he ever was involved in, not to mention the fact that he relied on his Blue-Blood Northeastern Establishment Banking family’s connections for every business he ever started. Read Kevin Phillips book, The Bush Dynasty. That family made all it’s money in war and Big Government largess. The problem with libertarianism is that it’s morally corrupt and economically illiterate. Unregulated “free” markets always led to booms and busts, and plutocracy. While libertarian philosophy would have us equally “free” to starve to death, it ignores the fact that we are not all equally at risk of starving to death. What’s ironic about MSS is that he’s a small businessman, and really doesn’t benefit from the “progressive income tax” any more then the people who work for him. He’s been snowed by the Republican Party, who appeal to economic resentments of working people, but then govern the country like plutocrats. Sent at: 2008 11 22