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Ethics in panic

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

10/25/08

[T]he current economic fiasco has shaken some people’s confidence in the soundness of the free society. To me that’s akin to being shaken in one’s conviction in an honest and loving marriage because, well, they are rare. Free markets do not produce the mess that we are witnessing. Free market champions have forecast this mess for over a century, making the point that the more we permit government to attempt to direct the economy, the more we are inviting catastrophe, just as this has happened elsewhere...

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!475.entry



The exit from fascism is open

from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

10/24/08

When you lose your illusions you see yourself and your own actions clearly. We need to see our present circumstances as they are and not as we want them to be. We have an opportunity to take back our country but that window of opportunity will close rapidly. We need to return to the form of government experienced by our Founders. We need to stop talking about freedom and set tasks that return control of government to the people at the most local level and change our economy from one that has us hemorrhaging jobs and money to one that keeps money local. Each of these goals takes us to freedom; not just words but the reality. And despite appearances to the contrary, the establishment of a real freedom has never been more possible...

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/blog/melinda/exit_fascism_open.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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