Freedom and Liberty – that’s why we write here at GraniteGrok. The radical concepts that the individual was sovereign, that our Rights that stem from natural law and from God to each and every person, was the gift given to us from the intellectual firepower of the Framers of the Declaration and Constitution, and the actual firepower used against what was the most powerful nation in the world at the time.
Yet, since the Progressive era starting in the late 1800’s, those concepts have been under attack – that Security and Stability should be the guiding foundations of society, with non-partisan technocrats providing the expertise to bring us to political utopia. And without the State to "guide" us, we can never obtain that "Heaven on Earth" of equal outcomes and being the best that they know we can be.
Milton Friedman, a Nobel winning economist, knew well that a free people making their own decisions based on their own self-interest (and for that of their families) and a free market (with voluntary transactions that tell the market which direction to take, based on the combined decisions of those freely made purchases and sales) could do more to achieve that than the top-down command structure that purports to "be for the 99%". From Carpe Diem (via Cafe Hayek), these three videos speak volumes:
Redistribution of Wealth:
Schooling a young idealist:
Why soaking the rich won’t work:
