The Government Has Nothing To Give To

Once The Premise Is Accepted That Poverty Is Never The Fault Of The Poor But The Fault Of 'society,' Or Of 'the Capitalist System, Then There Is No Definable Limit To Be Set On Relief, And The Politicians Who Want To Be Elected Or Reelected Will Compete With Each Other In Proposing New 'welfare' Programs To Fill Some Hitherto 'unmet Need.'

Capitalism Will Continue To Eliminate Mass Poverty In More And More Places And To An Increasingly Marked Extent If It Is Merely Permitted To Do So.

Diluting The Money Supply With Paper Is The Moral Equivalent Of Diluting The Milk Supply With Water.

The More Things A Government Undertakes To Do, The Fewer Things It Can Do Completely. When The Government Tries To Do Everything It Must Do Everything Badly.

There Are Men Regarded Today As Brilliant Economists, Who Deprecate Saving And Recommend Squandering On A National Scale As The Way Of Economic Salvation; And When Anyone Points To What The Consequences Of These Policies Will Be In The Long Run, They Reply Flippantly, As Might The Prodigal Son Of A Warning Father: 'in The Long Run We Are All Dead.' And Such Shallow Wisecracks Pass As Devastating Epigrams And The Ripest Wisdom.