No Child Left Undrugged

[Kat Kanning]

http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=15

[davemincin]

Thanks Kat...Amazing so bureaucrats knows what is better for kids than, you
as a parent? ???

State sponsored drugs...but heaven forbid if one of those little devils smokes
a joint!

Of course we all know in that case their eyeballs will fall out!   Because the
bureaucats tell us so!

[intergraph19]

I'm not terribly suprised.  I wasn't doing all that hot in elementry school so they tried to tell my parents I was ADD/ADHA, which I certainly was not.

[AlanM]

Keep the masses drugged, and you keep them subservient.

[Kat Kanning]

TV's not working as well as it used to, I guess.  They needed something stronger.

[AlanM]

I don't have a TV that is hooked up. I use it only to watch movies from my VCR. (I know, old technology.) I am amazed by the number of people who can't fathom life without TV. Then again, perhaps I shouldn't be.

[Kat Kanning]

Same here, we have a VCR to watch movies, no TV reception.

[Lloyd Danforth]

You're missing a three hour interview with Charles Murray on C-Span2.

[AlanM]

You're missing a three hour interview with Charles Murray on C-Span2.

Your point, Lloyd?

[Lloyd Danforth]

Charles Murray -- Libertarian
Best-selling author and policy analyst Charles Murray has written some of the most hotly-debated and influential social policy books of recent decades.

Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (1984) devastated the case for the welfare state by showing that it was not only ineffectual, it actually left the poor worse off than ever before. It is, and remains, one of the most important and influential policy books of our generation.

In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government (1988): examines current social problems and human goals and drives, and argues that a small, limited, Jeffersonian-type government provides the best structure for "the pursuit of happiness" and all that phrase implies.

The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein, 1994) examines in great detail highly controversial views regarding IQ and social policy.

What It Means To Be A Libertarian (1997) is a brief, eloquently written and ingeniously argued introduction to libertarianism. It is a delight to read, filled with novel and insightful arguments for libertarianism.

A witty and insightful writer and speaker, Murray has been a guest on most major TV talk shows. He is Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Quotable:
from What It Means To Be A Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation
"Freedom is first of all our birthright... An adult making an honest living and minding his own business deserves to be left alone to live his life. He deserves to be free."

"Applied to personal behavior, the libertarian ethic is simple but stark: Thou shalt not initiate the use of force. Thou shalt not deceive or defraud. Anyone who observes both these injunctions faithfully has gone a long way toward being an admirable human being as defined by any of the world's great ethical system."

"Human freedom has always had to depend first on the individual's understanding that he is the custodian of his life, no matter who tries to say otherwise."

from In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government:

"But I finally came to rest in the belief that Jeffersonian democracy is still the best way to run society... it may just be that on certain fundamental questions of government, Jefferson and his colleagues were right more universally than they knew. In particular, they understood that the vitality of communities and the freedoms of individuals are intertwined."




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[Lloyd Danforth]

He just suggested announcing the end of all aid to(new?) single mothers 9 months and one day from today as the answer to illigetmate births in the U.S.

[AlanM]

Lloyd, I just listened to an interview with Charles Murray, (very good one, I might add), without the use of a TV. That is my point. I don't NEED to see or hear it live. The information will soon be available in another form. I could even read his books. (Radical idea, I know, actually reading something.)
Thank you, though, for wanting to spread the news about Charles Murray. 

[Lloyd Danforth]

I, only, watched for a few minutes my self.  I will tape it a midnight and watch it when I have nothing else to do.