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Self-Governance Works

Bruce2142 Wrote: Oct 28, 2009 5:30 PM
"FYI, after 17 years the cash value of my pension was around $30K. Oh boy, was i excited to see that number :-)"

Wow! Obviously not a great return! In fact, you may have done better off opening a savings account at the bank! :-)

Have a great evening!

Much of what government does is based on the premise that people can't do things for themselves. So government must do it for them. More often than not, the result is a ham-handed, bumbling, one-size-fits-all approach that leaves the intended beneficiaries worse off. Of course, this resulting failure is never blamed on the political approach -- on the contrary, failure is taken to mean the government solution was not extravagant enough.

We who have confidence in what free people can achieve have long believed that government should not venture beyond its narrow sphere of providing physical security. It should not attempt...

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