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BLUEPRINT FOR FREEDOM
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l< Nobody will ask a dishwasher to A dispose of garbage because everyone knows in that way you would destroy H' the dishwasher and you wouldn't dis' pose of the garbage. Yet practically everybody will toss every conceivable W problem that besets him from the " cradle to the grave into the hopper of «| government; and expect the govern' Is ment to turn out the solution of this £ problem economically without corrupd tion, without destruction, and in a is completely satisfying manner. You ni know, that any tool or appliance in il your plant is destroyed when it is used X contrary to its nature and contrary to 3 its designed purpose. You can explain e: that fact to any unskilled laborer in cc your factory. Now, why can't we ex' u plain this governmental tool to this same man? Why don't we try? Why don't we show him this blueprint and es tell him that this government was de(! signed to do a special job? That it did k that job well for 1 50 years; but if you I try to pervert it into a thousand uses I for which it wasn't designed, then -, American government is going to be J destroyed.
i In spite of the unmistakable lan' • guage of this blueprint I find that t practically nobody now thinks of American government as a tool.
I find there is a prevailing misunderstanding about government in this ; country today. Until it is clarified all your battles for private enterprise are going to be lost. The average man and woman in this country today doesn't regard government as a tool at all. They regard government as a selfcreated, self-propelled, self-subsisting, self-financed institution; a benevolent thing, like a cow. Not a bull mind you, but a cow. A tremendous cow
that stretches across the sky with its head in the clouds, eating stratosphere, I suppose, while it grows a big fat teat for everybody on earth.
There was a teat for Tito, another one for Churchill. We even offered one to Stalin, but he was having vodka that day and didn't want any milk.
The cow concept is the prevalent notion of American political science, and until you discredit the cow concept of government, don't waste any time trying to save private enterprise.
You will meet stiff sales resistance when you start to work on this unfortunate misunderstanding. It's a tough job to wean just one calf but you will have to wean millions of them. They will say, who is going to do these jobs if the government can't do them? If you narrow government down to this simple task of restraining men from injuring one another, what about all the list of things we want done in and for our society?
THAT takes us back to the blueprint again. The men who made this blueprint were afraid of govern
"She's our treasurer!"