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08-17-2009, 02:06 AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/6034804/Nothing-is-as-liberating-as-prosperity.html
"Every country with a liberal economic system will have people who are poorer than others. But they should not be the same people from one generation to the next. In a dynamic economy, individuals may move out of (or into) poverty, but what is important is that their fate should not be determined by forces wholly outside of their own will.
The test of a progressive society, in fact, is just how much of that movement can be controlled by the person himself. If, for example, a whole industry closes down, taking with it the livelihoods of an entire community, we should expect a society to make available possibilities for retraining and geographical mobility, rather than create permanent dependence (and indissoluble poverty) through government benefit programmes. The question was (and still is): are people ready to take responsibility for themselves?
What radical Toryism taught, and Labour once admitted that it had learned, is that real progressivism means making people more, rather than less, free."
Under collectivism, your fellow citizen is regarded as a liability. With individualism, your fellow citizen is regarded as an asset...
"Every country with a liberal economic system will have people who are poorer than others. But they should not be the same people from one generation to the next. In a dynamic economy, individuals may move out of (or into) poverty, but what is important is that their fate should not be determined by forces wholly outside of their own will.
The test of a progressive society, in fact, is just how much of that movement can be controlled by the person himself. If, for example, a whole industry closes down, taking with it the livelihoods of an entire community, we should expect a society to make available possibilities for retraining and geographical mobility, rather than create permanent dependence (and indissoluble poverty) through government benefit programmes. The question was (and still is): are people ready to take responsibility for themselves?
What radical Toryism taught, and Labour once admitted that it had learned, is that real progressivism means making people more, rather than less, free."
Under collectivism, your fellow citizen is regarded as a liability. With individualism, your fellow citizen is regarded as an asset...