Monday, July 23, 2012
"Charles Krauthammer: Did the state make you great?"
The president's comment had to be directed to those that can't or won't think...
In the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer answers the question intelligently:
"... the most formative, most important influence on the individual is not government. It is civil society, those elements of the collectivity that lie outside government: family, neighborhood, church, Rotary club, PTA, the voluntary associations that Tocqueville understood to be the genius of America and source of its energy and freedom. Moreover, the greatest threat to a robust, autonomous civil society is the ever-growing Leviathan state and those like Obama who see it as the ultimate expression of the collective."