In my opinion...

It wasn't laissez-faire.

The Law

No that's not Joseph Smith, nor any mormon for that matter. It's Frederic Bastiat and he wrote a book called The Law, just a few years after Joseph himself was doin' his thang.

So I read this book and it blew my mind. It puts our current government into perspective. I sure wish every person (I'm a person, you're a person, Brett's a person, that person over there's a person) would read this. It's like the frog/boiling water analogy. You can't boil a frog if the water is already hott, otherwise it'll jump out. You have to gradually raise the temperature. Well the government has succeeded in gradually raising the temperature.

Seeing as how the Church sometimes decides to get involved politically, I can't imagine them really believing what is written in this book and not doing something about it. It's a more disturbing issue than Prop 8 if you ask me. Somebody please read this book and tell me if I'm crazy.

Oh and beware to any Obama lovers. This read might make that tingly feeling in your leg go away, and I understand how special of a feeling that can be...

and Oh again, the version of The Law that I read had the attachment Cliches of Socialism, which is a compilation of numerous authors writing modern applications of Bastiat's brilliance. Modern applications such as social security, income redistribution, public education, etc. This compilation helped me "get the point" of The Law.

Baby it's getting cold outside

Nothing is more depressing for me than the thought of winter :( Luckily we'll have Seren now to keep our minds off of the fact that summer is no more. As you can see she doesn't mind making the most of the weather. Every day McKell and Seren walk to my school to pick me up and they escort me home. Very nice of them.