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"Against fatality, man has two weapons:
consciousness and liberty."
Victor Hugo


On Wealth and Poverty

Only wealth cures poverty.
Let me repeat : only wealth can cure poverty.
When people complain about the oppressive poverty that
afflicts so many of the world's innocent people, ask them what they
are doing to increase the wealth in the world. They may want to instead
talk about fairness or how some government needs to redistribute something.
Or about "greed", without noticing the moral difference between desiring to earn
wealth by producing it, and desiring wealth earned by another. You might point out
that needless destruction of wealth, or potential wealth, imposes needless poverty on
innocent people somewhere in the world. Explain that, until the rise of Progressivism
during the 21st century, America was, by far, the greatest wealth producer in history.
The American people, by establishing a system that honored the right of individuals
to freely direct their own lives, and then by the life choices that they freely made,
did more to reduce human poverty and suffering, and to increase human
comfort and happiness, than any government in history.

Then the Progressives came to power.
Under the leadership of a secretive and ruthless President,
they systematically squandered and destroyed countless billions
of dollars in wealth and wealth production capacity, along with the
freedom to rebuild. Our best hope died and they called it progress.
The haters of human liberty cheered.
To exist, wealth must be produced. Governments are necessary
to deal with crime, but they do not produce wealth. People do. When
people are free to make what they choose of their lives, they choose
productive behaviors. America was the proof. When earnings are
claimed and redistributed by an immoral government, people
are made to choose between being receivers of unearned
goods, or producers of goods to be taken from them
by force. Many start choosing to be takers.
America is proof of that as well.



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