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Source link: http://blog.mises.org/10404/our-enemy-the-state/

Our Enemy, the State

August 5, 2009 by

If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely, a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price fixing, wage fixing, inflation, political banking, “agricultural adjustment,” and similar items of State policy that fill the pages of newspapers and the mouths of publicists and politicians. All these can be run up under one head. They have an immediate and temporary importance, and for this reason they monopolize public attention, but they all come to the same thing; which is, an increase of State power and a corresponding decrease of social power. FULL ARTICLE

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Barry Loberfeld August 5, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Regarding the theme of society vs. the State:

Condemning limited government for not performing the functions of the charity, the church, the family, the firm, the school, and the other organs of the body politic is like condemning the skeleton for not performing the functions of the brain, the heart, the stomach, the liver, the lungs, and the other organs of the body proper. Freedom is the framework that secures all other virtues.

From here.

OneSTDV August 6, 2009 at 5:36 am

This is becoming even more true under Obama as he carelessly tries to impose government into every sector of life.

Obama on Single Payer Healthcare

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