Thursday, August 04, 2005
Our Newest Op Ed
Bureaucracy is Not Freedom<
- By Rudy Takala
Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote, "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" Such words would seem to describe the state to which modern proponents of constitutionalism and individualism have been relegated.
The most recent example of this is the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA passed the U.S. House on July 28th by a vote of 217-215. It's a treaty that, as the name alleges, makes us a freer nation. Unfortunately, freedom today has been defined by bureaucrats as being large numbers of convoluted regulations. As one lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in justifying CAFTA, "We as a country are a party to a very small number of trade agreements globally, particularly compared to the EU (European Union)."
So the European Union is ahead of us in terms of economic entanglements. We must be doing something wrong.........
Click HERE To Read On
- By Rudy Takala
Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote, "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" Such words would seem to describe the state to which modern proponents of constitutionalism and individualism have been relegated.
The most recent example of this is the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA passed the U.S. House on July 28th by a vote of 217-215. It's a treaty that, as the name alleges, makes us a freer nation. Unfortunately, freedom today has been defined by bureaucrats as being large numbers of convoluted regulations. As one lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in justifying CAFTA, "We as a country are a party to a very small number of trade agreements globally, particularly compared to the EU (European Union)."
So the European Union is ahead of us in terms of economic entanglements. We must be doing something wrong.........
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 8/04/2005 02:00:00 AM 
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