Evil Concealed By Money
Walter E. Williams is one of the most articulate conservatives in the media today. In addition to his columns and radio fill ins he is a distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University. I have heard him many times on the radio and I have always been impressed by his ability to make the seemingly complex simple. As I have said many times in this space the solutions to our problems are not complex they are simple. It’s about returning to the foundational principles this country was founded on as articulated by the founders not the media or politicians.
In this article he explains why socialism is evil. He makes the case that socialism is a form of slavery. The money quote:
The bottom line is that we’ve become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” Tragically, today’s Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail.
Be sure to click through and read the whole thing. It’s very good.
Walter E. Williams : Evil Concealed By Money – Townhall.com
B.T.W. I’m working on a post defining conservatism and then I’ll get back to the conversation with Jordan. It’s been a very busy and draining week.
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I’m sorry your week has been so draining. Hope it picks up for you.
The question (using the example from the article) is why friends/family/neighbors are not helping the lady themselves. He’s absolutely right about the wrongness of a state-driven solution. This is why I’m so excited about some of the churches up in Bemidji deciding to house the homeless over the winter. It’ll get people’s hands dirty enough to figure out what’s REALLY happening with people without homes, enough to make educated decisions about ways to help and be helped.
As Nathan Snow argues about former prisoners over here (http://naturalaw.failuretorefrain.com/2008/11/19/where-to-send-guantanamo-prisoners-they-can-move-in-with-me/) and I have debated many places….the church should be the primary mover on issues of ethics, and government need have nothing to do with it.
The horrific ruling in New Zealand over the child abuse/death case noted that the neighbors who did not get involved in stopping the abuse were complicit in the child’s death. Or the people who watched out their apartment windows, calling 911, while a woman got raped (news story I heard a few years ago, no link). Don’t offload your ethical burden to government, period – this is our responsibility, and we must step up.
We would just argue this not merely over taxes and spending, but over legislature as well.