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We Need a New System, Not a New President

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
A pleasant natural environment is a good – a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn’t beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.
– P.J. O’Rourke, All the Trouble in the World [1994]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
September 18, 2024
We Need a New System, Not a New President
Unfortunately, the presidential race is devoid of any discussion of what is actually the most important issue facing the American people: whether to continue the political and economic systems under which we have all been born and raised — that is, the welfare state, the national-security state, and the regulated/managed economy — or to replace…
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