In Praise of the Free Market and Peace - Couverture souple

Chodes, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 4871873315 ISBN 13 : 9784871873314

Editeur : Ishi Press, 2012

Synopsis

Private enterprise has provided citizens with the same benefits that governments dispense in our contemporary world. Only cheaper and better. The contention of all 20th century States has been that only through governmental funding can universal schooling, health care, and a “safety net” be provided. The reality proves otherwise. One wonders how Uncle Sam became a central force in this basic social endeavor in the 20th and 21st centuries. Washington's “benevolence” to dispense billions of dollars to promote tax-funded schooling, had as its basis, the intense necessity to transform the minds and souls of Southern children, so they would never be the rebels against federal authority like their parents had been. By the beginning of the 20th century this radical form of curriculum entered the Northern states. As a result of that revelation, this became a major area of my writing. The last part of this book is about America's military. At first glance this seems far afield from a discourse on the free market. But that is incorrect. Our Founding Fathers believed in limited government, which allows a large arena for freedom and free enterprise. They feared a large standing army, realizing that it would eventually transform the U.S.A. into a military dictatorship that would drastically reduce our freedoms and the ability to maintain a free enterprise economy. So, to discuss the folly of our armed forces and its simultaneous takeover of our lives and its self-destructiveness, is appropriate.

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Biographie de l'auteur

As Communications Director of the New York Libertarian Party for fifteen years, John Chodes has been published over 100 times, promoting the free market, in magazines, newspapers, and TV editorial replies. These have appeared in The New York Times, Reason, The Freeman, Chronicles, ABC-TV, CBS-TV, NBC-TV, etc. In addition, four books related to free market solutions, contained chapters by him. In these books, entitled “Public Education and Indoctrination,” “Work and Employment in Liberal Democratic Societies,” “The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade,” and “Private Means, Public Ends,” Mr. Chodes shows how, in the l9th century, the free market was first created, and how the private sector provided universal education, an economic “safety net,” for industrial workers, such as unemployment insurance, retirement benefits, health coverage, homes; all of which are now considered the sole province of The State. Some of this material appears in this volume. Mr. Chodes has also written extensively on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, to demonstrate how education was nationalized in that era by the federal government, to influence the minds of Southern children, so that they would not rebel against Uncle Sam as their predecessors had. This process has had an effect on all American education curriculum, North and South, into the 21st century. Edited versions of this story are presented in “In Praise of the Free Market and Peace.” Mr. Chodes' historical biography, “Jabez Curry and the Re-education of the Old South,” pursues this theme. It was praised as “A story of universal significance. Chodes is a playwright, and has written the story as a dramatist, and has produced something of a unique literary form, one that combines biography with the play.” (Dr. Donald Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University.) Another book, “Horatio Seymour, Governor of New York, Attacks Abe Lincoln's War,” presents the speeches of Governor Seymour, showing the extreme conflicts he had with the President, over the conduct of the war and the destruction of civil rights and the Constitution. In his review, Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, said: “New York playwright and biographer, John Chodes, has illuminated one forgotten aspect of the Civil War, in the person of Horatio Seymour, governor of New York, and Democratic candidate for President against General U.S. Grant, in 1868. ”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ishi Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 4871873315
• ISBN 13: 9784871873314
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible