Tuesday, November 01, 2011

He Gets It

One of my favorite authors. You can see why:

"[O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader -- the barbarians enter Rome."


-- Robert A. Heinlein

The Gunslinger
EOTIS

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