Forgetting Freedom

I have been piqued to know what caused, according to Friedrich Hayek, Europe and America to give up freedom and individualism which, along with commerce, gave many people an almost indescribably different life. Unfortunately, Hayek writes in "The Road to Serfdom" that he will not discuss that in detail but alludes to a new phenomenon of looking at people through the lens of scientific advances and the desire on the part of many to do away with man's evils as quickly as possible. I suspect this led to collectivism to be codified into socialism with the utopian idea of organizing man's life to the same degree that a factory is organized. Not only a factory but a Prussian factory at that. Surely, we have seen the Born-Alive Obama administration showing the same Socialist hubris. For example, Michaelle Born-Alive Obama lecturing us peasants on the right diet while she eats the very foods she warns us peasants against. I notice with pleasure the collectivists' hysteria to find anything, just anything, to hold against Rick Perry. Today it is recognition that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme in that there is no money being invested. Instead, it is going to paying for government, government's favorite programs, and for the Social Security recipients
who were currently getting payments. There was no money put in the "lockbox" for
the tsunami of future payments. This was what Bernie Maddoff did except that his
investors' money went to his wife and himself as well as to pay some "dividends" to try to make his business look legitimate as well as to attract more investors. Bernie Maddoff went to jail, but our politicians do not. That needs to be changed.
I believe it is Brazil that has passed a law stipulating that when a bank fails
because of making loans that don't get paid back, the board of directors goes to jail. Would that law had applied to the boards of directors at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac! Do you think they would have dared to make the absurd loans that they did make? They were deliberately making liar-loans in which nothing the mortgage applicant wrote down had to be verified. They deserve jail.
Now the media socialist-activists are crying because Rick Perry has called Social
Security a "sham." Which is exactly what it is. Two days ago, Rush Limbaugh spent an entire segment reading the names and titles of people who have been warning since 1960s that Social Security was a Ponzi scheme. He couldn't find MIA (missing in action when the Nation was discussing Obamacare) Romney calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, but Rush did quote from MIA Romney's last book where he called Social Security "dangerous." Then in last night's debate, MIA Romney had the hypocrisy and pettiness to say that Rick Perry's reference to Social Security as a Ponzi scheme was "dangerous." Maybe everything is dangerous to MIA Romney. I'm surprised he didn't hide inside his lectern last night. Where'd he hide when we were discussing Born-Alive Obamacare?
Rick Perry continues to look like not only a man but the man. Keep it up!