Our collectivist candidates
Cato Institute
by David Boaz
05/28/08
On Sunday Barack Obama urged graduates of Connecticut’s Wesleyan University to devote themselves to ‘collective service.’ This is not an unusual theme for a commencement address. But it was interesting how long he went on discussing various kinds of nonprofit activism without ever mentioning the virtues of commerce or of individual achievement. … Or this year’s Republican nominee. John McCain also denounces ’self-indulgence’ and insists that Americans serve ‘a national purpose that is greater than our individual interests’...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9429
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Boaz
by David Boaz
05/28/08
On Sunday Barack Obama urged graduates of Connecticut’s Wesleyan University to devote themselves to ‘collective service.’ This is not an unusual theme for a commencement address. But it was interesting how long he went on discussing various kinds of nonprofit activism without ever mentioning the virtues of commerce or of individual achievement. … Or this year’s Republican nominee. John McCain also denounces ’self-indulgence’ and insists that Americans serve ‘a national purpose that is greater than our individual interests’...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9429
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Boaz
rudkla - 29. Mai, 12:47
