Frederic Bastiat On Troops, Henry Hazlitt on Bureaucrats11th March 2013

Last week we introduced the great French economic philosopher, Frederic Bastiat, and his Broken Window, which goes to the root of the current problems with our bodies economic and politic, and perhaps much of human thought. I promised to pick up with more of his erudite thoughts, and so here we go ... Remember that Bastiat was born in 1801, and even though he died young, of tuberculosis in 1850, he lived through an era of revolution, anarchy, authoritarianism, monarchy and republic. With all