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"Behold the hypocrisy. The free marketeers have spent the past two decades preaching against the evils of state intervention, the dead hand of government, the need to roll back the frontiers, and so on. Yet what happens when these buccaneers of unfettered capitalism run into trouble? They go running to the nanny state they so deplore, sob into her lap and beg for help."
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About Me
- gocarter
- Winter Park, Florida, United States
- 46 Liberal Left Left Left I worked for the Obama campaign in 2008.
While some of Lincoln's quotes on labor are virtually socialist, this quote (which I agree with) is bogus:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln.asp
But this one by Jefferson, is genuine:
"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816.