We tend to forget that government, politics, and economics are not the same thing. The word politics and the phrase political party don’t even occur in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Nor is the word economy even implied in either of these documents. In fact, George Washington, the...
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FutbolGuru
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Mon, Feb 23 2009
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Filed under: capitalism, government, politics, greed, selfishness, nepotism, free market, materialism, hedonism, economics
I had a thought today about writing a story about the true new American dream. The lede of the story begins: My father was a self-made man—everything he made, everything he earned, he made and earned of his own accord. And from as early as I could remember I always found him to be a very selfish...