Author Topic: Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete? Thomas Sowell. 6/7/16  (Read 366 times)

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Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete? Thomas Sowell. 6/7/16
« on: June 07, 2016, 10:34:45 am »
Among the many disturbing signs of our times are conservatives and libertarians of high intelligence and high principles who are advocating government programs that relieve people of the necessity of working to provide their own livelihoods.

Generations ago, both religious people and socialists were agreed on the proposition that "he who does not work, neither shall he eat." Both would come to the aid of those unable to work. But the idea that people who simply choose not to work should be supported by money taken from those who are working was rejected across the ideological spectrum.

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