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Thursday, 30 December 2010

A metaphor for the nanny state

From Charlotte Hays on the nanny state:
It can order us to do anything, but it can’t take care of the basic obligations of government.

That pretty much sums up what I find wrong (among many other things) with Socialism.  The would-be commissars keep telling me that I have to give up my liberty in order to have pie, but it turns out after it's too late that there was never any pie and my lunch stops showing up, too.
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1 comment:

  1. IronmistressThursday, 30 December 2010 at 02:02:00 GMT-8

    Usually people tends to lose their liberties because of abusing them.

    But if the state takes away liberties which people have not abused, or as a pre-emptive act, it should really raise an alarm.

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