Monday, January 16, 2012

The Patriot Post: Brief for Monday, January 16, 2012

Insight



"The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects -- his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity." --American economist Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)

Faith & Family


"Doesn't anybody get the connection between the social issues and economics issues? One candidate who does, Rick Santorum had the courage to link the two in a recent Iowa town hall meeting. (And before I go on, please, folks, I'm not endorsing him or anyone. I never do.) Here's what Senator Santorum said: 'Yes, [the election is] about growth and the economy, [but] it's also about what is at the core of our country ... faith and family. You can't have a strong economy, you can't have limited government if the family is breaking down and we don't live good, moral, and decent lives.' Precisely right. ... If the nation's current economic crisis has taught us anything, it's that a healthy economy cannot thrive in the midst of moral breakdown. Ethical failures on Wall Street, Main Street, and Capitol Hill put us into this mess we're in today, as I've said many times before. ... Do you think that crime rates, incarceration, low educational achievement, out of wedlock births, affect the economy and government spending? Of course they do, and the statistics prove this! If you want a healthy, thriving economy you've got to have a strong moral societal foundation." --author Chuck Colson


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