At 09:52 AM 10/12/2010, you wrote:
maybe this time, they'll get it right - if they don't change anything.
Can you provide some specifics. Thanks in advance.
Regard$,
--MJ
And is not this the point that we have now
reached? What is the cry going up everywhere,
from all ranks and classes? All for one! When we
say the word one we think of ourselves, and what
we demand is to receive an unearned share in the
fruits of the labour of all. In other words, we
are creating an organized system of plunder.
Unquestionably, simple out-and-out plunder is so
clearly unjust as to be repugnant to us;but
thanks to the motto, all for one, we can allay
our qualms of conscience. We impose on others the
duty of working for us. then, we arrogate to
ourselves the right to enjoy the fruits of other
men's labour. We call upon the state, the law, to
enforce our so-called duty, to protect our
so-called right, and we end in the fantastic
situation of robbing one another in the name of
brotherhood. We live at other men's expense, and
then call ourselves heroically self-sacrificing
for so doing. Oh, the unaccountable folly of the
human mind! Oh, the deviousness of greed! It is
not enough that each of us tries to increase our
share at the expense of other; it is not enough
that we want to profit from labour that we have
not performed. we even convince ourselves that in
the process we are sublime examples of
self-sacrifice;we almost go so far as to call our
unselfishness Christlike. We have become so blind
that we do not see that the sacrifices that cause
us to weep with admiration as we contemplate
ourselves are not made by us at all, but are
exacted by us of others. -- Frédéric Bastiat
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