Richard A. Epstein Quote

"While it would be silly and ungracious to insist that intelligent deliberation on public issues is nowhere found in modern communities, it would be naive to imagine that wise deliberation can survive the constant pounding from self-interested political behavior. Benevolence in public institutions has a short half-life no matter how noble its original intentions." and "Once [a] program is in place, its day-to-day administration falls into the hands of a professional cadre besieged by powerful interest groups whose influence grows as public interest wanes. . . . A slow process of disintegration and reconfiguration sets in, transforming and expanding a program from within."

by:	Richard A. Epstein (1943-) Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law
Source:	Principles for a Free Society
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Categories:	Power, Bureaucracy, Politics, Corruption
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Great observation ! ! !  We hold this truth to be self evident. When considering Constitutional original intent (that being unless the Constitution specifically states some thing can be done — it can not) the current occupying statist theocracy infesting this nation absolutely proves the quote's accuracy.  -- Mike, Norwalk      3
-- jim k, Austin
"Once [a] program is in place, its day-to-day administration falls into the hands of a professional cadre besieged by powerful interest groups whose influence grows as public interest wanes."  SO true.  -- E Archer, NYC      2
Almost every rule and regulation is put upon us by non elected bureaucrats. No elected person will take credit for them but many will fight to keep them.   -- warren giese, OLATHE      3
Despite the competing forces, the human being is going to put their faith in human survival as the final arbiter. Not crooked politicians, not the selfish, not perversion, but the beautiful wholesome, enabling, decent, dignified life giving energy, for Socialism is the challenge of socialized behavior to create dignity.   -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown
Sillik, your nonsensical word salad is antithetical to nature. Socialism challenges individual sovereignty, inalienable rights and liberty at nature's law. Socialism, through its many denominations, creates censorship, illogical dialogue, pain, suffering, poverty, anger, violence, death, war and all else that is contrary to the nobility of man.  -- Mike, Norwalk      1
The "final arbiter" is exactly what we are worried about.  And socialism's arbitration is indeed 'arbitrary.'  Those that obey get to live under the thumb of the oligarchy, the rest will have to 'survive' in exile, if at all.  We have seen socialism at work: Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba, Venezuela — death, poverty, and oppression are their fruits.  It is nothing but a con.  However, Liberty for the people with a republican government has proven them all wrong.  The only task is "to keep it."  -- E Archer, NYC      1
Mr Archer, those "organizations" you name are not representative of the social individual. The key aspect of Socialism is it's emphasis of the social aspect of the human race. You also forgot Vietnam, who are quite in the absolute violent process of making a terrible mockery of the Socialism ideology.  -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown      1
Mr Archer, these criminal "organizations" you mention, and they are and were criminal, were not in the the human development process. They were in the same business you ascribe, self aggrandizement, self promotion, self profit. They just call themselves some derivation of socialism, where you just call yourself liberty. You are both psychotic.  -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown      1
Mr Archer, Socialism searches for the human essence through the process of the social development strategy of building warm, kind, revealing, loving relationships. Socialism is principled based on the concept of love.  -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown      1
Socialism challenges individual sovereignty, inalienable rights and liberty at nature's law. Socialism, through its many denominations, creates censorship, illogical dialogue, pain, suffering, poverty, anger, violence, death, war and all else that is contrary to the nobility of man.  -- Mike, Norwalk

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