My next few blog posts are going to be devoted to debunking the myths (about the USA, government, and economics) which I believe are the greatest obstacles to real progress. Today though I am just going to start by listing a few that immediately come to mind. As I develop the topics I will try to return to this original post to update links to the full articles. Please bookmark this post and I look forward to your comments, suggestions, ridicule, etc.
- Top of the list has to be: "Wealth is a static quantity." The corollary to this is that for every "winner" there must be (at least!) one "loser." Click Here for the Article
- Another corollary to #1: "Modern-day Robin Hoods help the poor."
- All libertarians are anarchists." and "Laissez-faire capitalism implies anarchy" I can't wait to write about this!
- Politics is over my head/boring." or "How can I know what is right? I have to trust the guys in Washington to know what's best."
- "FDR's New Deal policies led us out of the Great Depression." or "World War II ended the Great Depression." BOTH are wrong.
- "Taxes are a necessary evil." I will agree they are evil.
- "Immigration is a drain on resources." Anyone who believes in liberty should be welcome. Anyone who doesn't should leave.
- "Outsourcing hurts America."
- "The Constitution does not apply." or "The founding fathers could not have imagined
when they wrote the Constitution."
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Wow! This is going to be fun! My vote on choice topic is #7!
As a side note. . .in summing up all of this, you might want to ceck out Don Williams' "Start Here" and simply read the first chapter. He words it all better than anyone else I have read.
(Note: This is not meant as any ind of directive on faith/ religous issues-- it just happens to be a book about Christianity-- but Don has summed up te bastardization and warping of morals and society in a nutshell!)
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