Voices for Freedom - Draft
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Voices For Freedom, Issue 02/14/10 | |
| A publication of AboutFreedom.org | |
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Wisdom from the Founders: | |
| Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. | |
| John Adams | |
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| Compassion and Truth | |
| Good Intentions Versus Good Results | |
| Good intentions are the result of people with compassion wanting to do something good. Good intentions are not good when they are combined with bad methods, and often hurt more than they help. |
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| Visit the Compassion and Truth website and join the community and the discussion. | |
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| Haiti Disaster | |
| The disaster in Haiti is an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of many people. There are many good organizations which are helping in this difficult time, and it is good to contribute what you can. |
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| Christian Service International is an important mission that has been involved in Haiti for many years. They have an infrastructure already set up and people in place who know the people an the needs. Their website is: | |
| http://www.csiministries.org/ | |
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| By Dan McLaughlin | |
| Nothing New Under The Sun | |
| “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” That familiar wisdom from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible is familiar because it is so true. None of the political innovations which are plaguing modern society are innovations at all. They are retreads of old, worn out and failed philosophies of decades, centuries and millennia past. |
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Nothing New Under The Sun |
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| Disappearing Private Sector Jobs | |
| The total number of jobs in the United States has fallen dramatically. The worse news is that all of the decline is in private sector jobs. The private sector is the productive sector and provides all of the wealth for the entire economy, including the parasite sector. | |
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Private Sector Jobs |
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| Common Sense Economics | |
| common Sense Economics is one of the vast collection of downloadable books, articles, audio, and video files available at Mises.org, the website of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. | |
| Common Sense Economics | |
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| Trouble at the Fed | |
| We do not need new monetary process models, more statistics, or better scenarios. All of these are in ample supply. We do not need a more competent chairman. By conventional measures, few are better qualified for the job than Bernanke. What we need is something else: the establishment of a different kind of monetary system, one that uses competitive markets in the area of money and banking, and that eliminates the currency monopoly of the state. |
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Trouble at the Fed | |
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