by N. Joseph Potts

Ludwig von Mises Institute

02/11/05

Welfare/warfare states such as today's America are distinguished by the ever-tightening grip the collective exercises over the course of their citizens' lives, as the expression goes, from the cradle to the grave. Such governments are also distinguished, of course, by their propensity to expend not only the interests and energies of their people in the pursuit of the goals of the governing class, but their very lives as well, as when hundreds of thousands of young men and women are put first in uniform and then in harm's way to fight wars and -- win or lose -- extend their masters' imperial reach at the cost of their blood...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp