Tuesday, March 31, 2015

A World Without The Welfare State

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-31/world-without-welfare-state

We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard times? In fact, there were free market solutions and non-government answers to these questions long before the modern Big Government Welfare State. Unfortunately, after nearly a century of increasing political and cultural collectivism,the historical memory of the pre-welfare state era has all but been lost. The Welfare State makes us all poorer in character and independence. Confiscation of freedom through abridgements of individuals’ rights to their life, liberty and honestly acquired property, also brings with it a less humane and civil society.

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