The antics of those AWOL legislators in Wisconsin and, now, Indiana bring to mind Mr. Bastiat's prescient prediction: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
2/23/11
Frederic Bastiat's 19th Century Revelation
The antics of those AWOL legislators in Wisconsin and, now, Indiana bring to mind Mr. Bastiat's prescient prediction: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
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