Remember Green Stamps?

Eduardo Nolla of the Wall Street Journal has a few choice words about the burgeoning Nanny State, it's methods and goals. I wonder if there is anything we can really do. Perhaps it really is a vicious cycle...from slavery to freedom and back again.

"Life is turning into an awards program.

Little did Sperry and Hutchinson, who in 1896 started the most successful ever rewards plan, know to what new and imaginative uses the modern versions of their S&H Green Stamps program would be put. Points have replaced stamps, but the mechanics are similar. A wave of "pointing" is running wild in the world, with governments embracing it wholeheartedly...."

Read the rest here.

The Gunslinger