Friday, July 1, 2011

Choices

In 1944 F A Hayek wrote: "(U)nless this complex society is to be destroyed, the only alternative to submission to the impersonal and seemingly irrational forces of the market is submission to an equally uncontrollable and therefore arbitrary power of other men.  In his anxiety to escape the irksome restraints which he now feels, man does not realize that the new authoritarian restraints which will have to deliberately imposed in their stead will be even more painful." (The Road To Serfdom, F A Hayek, edited by Bruce Caldwell; The University Of Chicago Press, 2007; p 212)
We really only have two choices: free market or socialism.  Since BO does not like the free market, guess where he is taking us.  And if there is no difference between socialism and nazism/fascism, guess what that makes BO.
And don't think that will be wonderful.  It will be painful.  The USSR discovered that; China is discovering that; Poland discovered that; East Germany discovered that; Cuba is discovering that.  Why in the world would we ever want to go there?

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