For our own sake, we should not dismiss lightly Mr. Hannan's warning in his book, "A New Road To Serfdom". For one thing, barely a couple of years since its publishing, events are validating his concerns. The EU is unravelling economically and cultural/societal red flags abound in ways he said seemed pretty inevitable. How far must the EU go down that road before we accept the inevitability (you don't think they wanted to go there do you?) and that making similar socialist-type choices doom us to the same undesirable fate?
Here's a link to the Hoover Institution's excerpts from his explanation of various elements of his book:
http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uncommon-knowledge/53911
The consequences he describe are pretty jaw-dropping considering how they're being validated every day in Europe. THAT really can happen here? R U Kidding Me? In fact, we can count on it happening here if we remain headed in the same direction. Just the very reasonable realization that it COULD happen here for the same reasons it happened in Europe ought to make us pay attention to Mr. Hannan's warning. There's too much at stake to ignore it because if there's any truth in what he said it won't be long before the inertia of the choices we've been making render the same results unavoidable.
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