The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.
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When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears
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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
