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Friday, March 11, 2005
It is time to cut through the underbrush of detail and face up to the basic question in this issue of state help versus self-help. What kind of society do we want? One of independent self-reliant citizens, prepared to take care of themselves and their families, asking from the state only to leave them alone and get off their backs? Or a society of government pensioners, willing to sign away their political and economic liberty in exchange for ever bigger handouts? Which is the more desirable type of citizen -- the chronic recipient of relief or the sturdy hardworking Amish farmer who had his horses confiscated and sold by order of some local bureaucrat because he wanted to contract out of both the benefits and the payments involved in the social security system?
— William Henry Chamberlin
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