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Posted on: February 11, 2019 at 12:05:38 CT
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Children are our greatest natural resource.

There’s another high-sounding, popular, but dangerous expression. Herbert Hoover said it almost a century ago.

Yes, children are great. We’ve all been one (and some people still are). But if you use “ours” to speak of children, I hope you’re referring to yours, not mine or anybody else’s.

The point is that children are not collectively owned. They are created by parents, who lovingly exercise a guardian relationship over these new human beings until they are of age to be independent adults. And they are not a “natural resource” to be mined or exploited or pushed around.

The idea that children are an amorphous blob to be deployed for “the greater good” has been used to justify the most awful collectivist disasters.

This is not a quibble. The idea that children are an amorphous blob to be deployed for “the greater good” has been used to justify the most awful collectivist disasters, from Hitler’s Germany to Stalin’s Soviet Union.

I’m sure Herbert Hoover didn’t mean it that way when he said “Children are our greatest natural resource,” but it would have been nice if someone had shouted, “Stop right there, Mr. President! My child belongs to no one but me, and someday he will belong only to himself. That’s what freedom is all about. Please don’t think of my child as your natural resource.”
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Bad quotes from Bad Presidents - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:01:39
     Fate gave us 3 incredible presidents to start. - RHAYWORTH MU - 2/11 12:27:26
          Washington was no hero and craved power - pickle MU - 2/11 13:58:35
          Washington raised an army against his own citizens - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 12:31:57
               Maybe because about half of his citizens - GA Tiger MU - 2/11 13:05:02
                    you’re an idiot, GAT (nm) - pickle MU - 2/11 13:59:05
                    lol GAT (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 13:07:31
               would you toss out everything else about Washington and - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:58:36
                    lol 90 - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 13:06:55
                         I don't adore him, it was just a question (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 14:32:49
                              I know (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 14:52:10
                         Possibly because you BUY too much whiskey. And - GA Tiger MU - 2/11 13:22:54
                              the board's libertarian (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 14:07:11
                              Actually, the Articles were working well - pickle MU - 2/11 14:02:41
                                   They also weren't working if we were going to - GA Tiger MU - 2/11 14:07:21
                                        That doesn’t make sense - pickle MU - 2/11 14:25:48
                              I'll stipulate that men wanted greater power and - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 13:28:01
               That was the major tax funding at the time. - RHAYWORTH MU - 2/11 12:50:57
                    that's where it all began, yes (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 12:52:23
               Jon Adams represented the British soldiers accused of - MrBlueSky MU - 2/11 12:38:19
     some real **** stain presidents there... - escalade NWMSU - 2/11 12:10:42
          Interesting choices of quotes for wild Bill and the black - hokie VT - 2/11 12:23:38
          I've often wondered about Jefferson - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 12:13:20
               what's a 'work within the system guy" and I would offer that - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:24:42
                    RE: what's a 'work within the system guy" and I would offer that - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 12:37:17
                         is it your contention that he ran for office not aware of - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:59:46
                              I used the word "wondered" (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 2/11 13:08:16
               how was he a hypocrite?(nm) - escalade NWMSU - 2/11 12:14:52
                    Well for one, he wrote "all men are created equal" - MrBlueSky MU - 2/11 12:15:23
                         You should read the book too. Its time you - GA Tiger MU - 2/11 12:20:59
                         there it is... - escalade NWMSU - 2/11 12:20:44
                              Oh, he was just following the law in owning hundreds - MrBlueSky MU - 2/11 12:21:37
                                   RE: Oh, he was just following the law in owning hundreds - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:30:06
                                        I was responding to someone asking about what hypocrisy - MrBlueSky MU - 2/11 12:36:29
                                             then struggle away - they weren't viewed as the same - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:40:17
                                                  So then if a black man was not a man - MrBlueSky MU - 2/11 12:42:29
                                                       He was property, obviously - like a dog, a horse, or - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:53:04
                                                            The "property" distinction was made in the Dred Scott - MrBlueSky MU - 2/11 12:59:06
                                                                 no, it wasn't "made" in that decision, it was ruled to - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 14:34:05
                                   and they were all inherited... - escalade NWMSU - 2/11 12:22:11
                                        That's not true. He could have freed them while he was - MrBlueSky MU - 2/11 12:29:44
               Read "The Summer of 1787". Fantastic book that - GA Tiger MU - 2/11 12:14:47
                    Just ordered it for kindle. Nm - hokie VT - 2/11 12:41:41
                         Would like to know what you think of it.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 2/11 13:02:22
          Yeah, I hope you didn't mean my boy Thomas, since - GA Tiger MU - 2/11 12:12:16
               you are clearly distantly removed(nm) - escalade NWMSU - 2/11 12:13:09
                    Surely not THAT clear. Unless you - GA Tiger MU - 2/11 12:20:23
     ONE - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:04:21
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               THREE - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:05:14
                    FOUR - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:05:38
                         GET YOUR WOMAN ON THE FLOOR - Badird MU - 2/11 12:22:41
                         FIVE - 90Tiger MU - 2/11 12:06:11




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