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** FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025
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Let us determine that we shall not allow the state to be our master, but that we shall be the masters of the state. The long road of history is lined with the ruins of those states which bought the souls and the wills of their peoples by the lure of a granted security, and then led them to ruin by the same mirage. The world does not need one more such ruin. It needs a people who will be really secure and enduring, as far as mortal life is possible -- secure and enduring because each member or society is a person who accepts his and her responsibilities as duties, and asks only that the state act to keep the avenues of freedom open.
– Russell J. Clinchy, The Freeman [November 1980]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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December 12, 2025 The Evil of the Welfare State ([link removed])
One of the things about America’s welfare-state way of life that has long fascinated me is how welfare-state advocates are convinced that this way of life reflects the goodness of the American people. By the same token, anyone who opposes this way of life is considered to be heartless, uncaring, selfish, and self-centered. But if we carefully examine how the welfare state works, ...
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