2011年10月8日土曜日

This is pretty good...

I don't want to take a turn for the political in this blog, but I came across this and it's pretty gosh-darned good:

"A second danger to President ○○○’s valiant and heroic experiments seems to arise from the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.  It is a very attractive sport, and once it gets started quite a lot of people everywhere are found ready to join in the chase.  Moreover, the quarry is at once swift and crafty, and therefore elusive.  The pursuit is long and exciting, and everyone’s blood is infected with its ardour.  The question arises whether the general well-being of the masses of the community will be advanced by an excessive indulgence in this amusement.  The millionaire or multi-millionaire is a highly economic animal.  He sucks up with sponge-like efficiency money from all quarters.  In this process, far from depriving ordinary people of their earnings, he launches enterprise and carries it through, raises values, and he expands that credit without which on a vast scale no fuller economic life can be opened to the millions.  To hunt wealth is not to capture commonwealth."

If you're curious who wrote it, just put parts of it into Google or Yahoo.

And with that note, it's Saturday, I've already finished my planned jog before 8:00am and all that's left for the rest of the day is to bake a Potato Rosemary bread and drink absurd amounts of beer.

Cheers!

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