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We must realize, however, that our system, freedom and free enterprise, far superior to alternatives as it is, is not perfect. Every choice carries costs and benefits, this one included. What we must seek is the better choice, the one yielding the most benefits at the lowest acceptable cost. By that standard, the best known and available, our combination wins hands down even though, as East Europeans are learning, there are costs.
I would like to close this brief history lesson with something Texas Senator Phil Gramm said late last year: “There are two competing visions for America’s future. The Democratic vision is more government providing more benefits to more people . . . The Republican and conservative is more freedom - with a growing America providing more opportunity for more people. You can’t have both unlimited government and unlimited opportunity; you have to choose.”
Like all generalizations, this one does not fit everyone. There are Democrats who do not support the ideas of the “benefits society,” some Republicans who do. Broadly, it is true. Nor is one all good, the other all bad; life simply does not work like that. There is overwhelming, irrefutable evidence that, on balance, the world’s benefits societies have lost the race - after trials lasting from
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