Suggested Reading for Folks Leaning to the Left

Before we redistribute ourselves to Serfdom with the help of our current President and Congress, I certainly hope some folks read these books and take their warnings to heart. In the name of fairness, we are about to lose major amounts of our freedom. Neither are particularly long books; de Jouvenel's is under 100 pages and Hayek's is just under 300. You should be able to read them in only a couple of days. Both books are available from Amazon.com and you should be able to by both for under $25. Considering what is about to happen to our taxes and our liberty, the books would be a wise investment. And who knows, it might Stimulate Amazon! These authors will certainly give you a different perspective on what is going on in our country right now and where we are headed if it continues.

Here's a quote from Adam Smith that introduces Hayek's Chapter 5, Planning and Democracy:

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

Here's a quote from de Jouvenel's book:

The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.