Those flames were rekindled in the 2010 elections, let's stoke that fire for the rest of our lives.

I only hope he is eventually proven right.

Spread the wealth is the end of economic opportunity.

Freedom stolen with the sales pitch of good intentions and the total arrogance and dismissal of the price paid.

Sounds like a great update of the Bastiat quote. "The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else."

It is growing and headed for a national ID, big brother keeps getting bigger.

He left out one more thing. The heavy hand of government can be used for extortion. A business can be attacked via the complex laws until they make the proper campaign donations.

Couldn't be any clearer. Ron Paul has been warning of this for many years. Those people in his district keep reelecting him because they understand his message. What's wrong with the rest of the nation?

Perfect!

Most of our debt nearly 80% is from SS and Medicare. We are being being buried in debt by good intentions. Not only did those programs steal our freedom and independence, the financial states of both programs ensure we will be worse off than if the government had done nothing "for us"

As a young man Sowell recognized that the people proposing socialism were not helping those in need but using them to advance their own political power. I always look forward to reading Sowell's work

Not only is he correct but I believe it was the original intent. A plan of forced government dependency to ensure power under the guise of helping people.

He is correct, they found an alternative. Government bought and paid for by the unions with taxpayer money.

I like the quote but am skeptical of the motive. I would like to thing FDR was wise in saying this, but unfortuntely I believe as in all else of his administration he was just building and protecting absolute power of central government.

FDR, the worst president in history. An unending attack on freedom and the constitution summed up in this very disturbing quote.

This leads perfectly into the comments by Milton Friedman that the true cost of government is all the taxation plus all the costs of all the regulation to comply with government. I would love to see that true calculation.

Ron Paul has been vocal about this since the 70's. He was dismissed as a kook and a nut by those that profited with wealth and power from growth of government. Only now are people beginning to see the truth in what he has been saying all along. Ron Paul is a true patriot and statesman.

Coming from man that lived it and was willing to pay the price to expose it for the evil that it is.

Socialism is just indentured servititude to the government. Individuals are nothing more than human livestock, the ruling elite keep all the riches and hand back what they believe the masses need to live. A failed method of government based on an immoral foundation.

I can't imagine the thought process that ever allowed that amendment to pass.

The absolute truth that no politician wants to admit. Even FDR himself said SS should change to prefunded system within 30 years. His own Treasury Secretary Morgantheau was opposed to the present funding system. How long will we continue to penalize our children for this and past generations ignorance?

Absolutely correct. All just different terms for increased power of the central government at the expense of individual liberty.

Obviously he didn't just fail American History he skipped class entirely

Reagan was right, I hope the people understand it well enough to defend it from the onslaught of arrogant busy body politicians.

Yes, both Jefferson and Franklin have similar quotes attributed to them. The proof of their brilliance is shown in all the negative consequences of central planning intended to fix all ills, everything from the disasterous federal reserve to entitlements.