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Communicity profile image78

Anti-Social Behaviour – A Product of the Welfare State?

 In an earlier Hub I asked if it was time to redefine the social contract. In that I showed how after 12 years in power, the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had failed to deliver on their promise...

2 comments    crime unemployment labour party
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Where has all the 'Fascist' gone,one by one ???

Where has all the 'Fascist' gone,one by one??? Mom and Pop's generation saved the world from fascism, this we are told and told with much pride. Why has their very seed resurrected and marketed fascism with...

0 comments    politics humor people
RockinB profile image64

Dissecting the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America

Dissecting the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, - the federal government has...

0 comments    freedom health care slavery
Angela Merkel offers more.54

Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel offers more. I think that this successful politician demeans herself here. But she also makes a very important point too. The State is seen as a huge pair of breasts for people to drink from to...

0 comments    politics self help welfare
AcrossTheDivision profile image50

America's Greatest Moral Dilemma?

Looking around at our nation, it seems as though the country we once viewed as the “land of the free and the home of the brave” is slowly slipping away to a dusty corner of our mind, forgotten as the...

0 comments    family money education
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The Looter Government

The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,...

0 comments    politics barack obama ayn rand
zach bender profile image51

just checking

I want you to imagine that someone is handing you a check. And this check represents compensation for, quote unquote, work you have done over the past two weeks. Work you might not...

0 comments    lifestyle imagine consumerism
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The Welfare State and Freedom

It seems odd to even think that I would have to be concerned about the liberties and freedoms my children will or will not be able to enjoy. In a nation such as this ... what have we done to our descendents?

4 comments    children politics government
Ralph Deeds profile image72

Supercapitalism--thoughts by Robert Reich and Tony Judt

The current issue of The NY Review of Books features a thought-provoking review of Robert Reich's new book "Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life." Judt convincingly...

9 comments    politics economics democracy
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Ayn Rand Was Right!

Reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which was published in 1957, is like reading tomorrow's newspaper. Her warnings about what big government leads to are even more timely now than when this work was first published. Her warnings were born out her own experience with collectivism and statism in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution.

2 comments    politics socialism capitalism
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