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.
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ya this gradual smooth gliding separation of our government form it's founding values is very stressful!! those that are straddling the crack need to be very flexible and will soon fall in. i want to read the book.
Bastiat is an Obama lover, I take it?
I read 'The Law', and I liked it. He has some great points about a utopian godless government, which would be nice to have right now, but I don't think possible.
He mentions socialist playing god, which is why I'm glad Obama doesn't want a socialist government. I think our current governmental gods, however, AKA capitalist CEOs, need more accountability.
So I'm hoping the next four years will balance out the government, create a hopeful chemisty among Americans to stabalize the market, and stop crazy spending on a war that should never happened, but perhaps instead go after those responsible for 911.
The next year or two will be tough financially, but the government has put us in this situation economically, and if we have to tax the rich while still allowing them 10 homes and their competitive nature, to help the country out, I'm all for it.
I think Obama is a driven and visionary man, a great leader, motivater, and diplomat. He also has a great family and strong moral values, something I could not say for McCain, who cheated on and divorced his wife after she was disabled in a car accident. Pretty much the same morals Clinton had.
I could be wrong, but I just don't see why this election was such a bad thing. Help me see?
I know the United Order will not work until "later", but what would He say about competitive capitalism, or lazy man socialism?
I'm welcoming discussion, ps, and don't mean to demean or argue. I fully admit I could be blind, however, I don't think I am.
I disagree. I think we read different stuff.
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