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The Town Crank
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By Steve Erbach on
Friday, November 21, 2003 7:16 AM
What is the most destructive force at work in the U.S.?
(published 24-Nov-2003, Appleton Post-Crescent)
Faith in government, by far. Juvenal described it as "Bread and circuses". Take the recent furor over the proposed Medicare prescription drug bill. What do we see in the news? "Any bill is better than no bill" or "No bill is better than a bad bill." Never any argument that this would turn into another monstrous and costly albatross around our necks. Social Security will run out of money very shortly. So why do we want to saddle ourselves with another extremely expensive program? The answer is simple: our leaders want us to vote for them. They want to nurture the belief that the government can solve all our problems. They want us dependent upon government for everything. Some of us believe it already. We are rapidly approaching what Rudyard Kipling foresaw as the time "when al ...
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By Steve Erbach on
Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:51 AM
What is the most constructive force at work in the U.S. today?
(published 17-Nov-2003, Appleton Post-Crescent)
What it has always been: inventiveness and American know-how. Any American -- even victims of government-funded public schooling -- can come up with a long list of American inventors. Thomas Edison: phonograph, incandescent light; Alexander Graham Bell: telephone; Eli Whitney: cotton gin; Henry Ford: assembly line; Bill Gates: DOS and Windows; Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs: Apple Computer; William Nelson Beck: ultrasound; Clarence Birdseye: frozen food; Robert Fulton: the first successful American steamboat; Jack St. Clair Kilby: hand-held calculator; Bill (not Al) Gore: Goretex; Ben Franklin: bifocals, lightning rod, Franklin stove, odometer; Bill Shockley: transistor; Philo Farnsworth: television; George Crum: potato chips; Gary Dahl: the Pet Rock; James Wright: Silly Putty; Harold Melvin & the ...
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Foundations
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- Government-funded compulsory schooling
- Income Tax
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