Growing up I often heard people remark that the “poor get poorer as the rich get richer.” I was led to believe that this was an unfortunate side effect of a free market economy. This flaw aside, the free market economy was said to be a much better approach than anything else that had come [...]
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You go to a ‘learning about the faith weekend’ or some such event expecting to be enlightened. Up to the podium steps a bearded Rabbi whose face speaks of wisdom and learning. Eagerly you wait for the inspiration you’ve been waiting for to believe. Out of those lips flow an argument which is akin to [...]
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” — Winston Churchill (from a House of Commons speech on Nov. 11, 1947)
