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California Dreamin' - A National Nightmare? » Publications » Family Security Matters: Crisis clarifies. Our vast economic disaster is the historically predictable culmination of a century of public policy experimentation ungrounded in empirical reference. It is the result of an hubristic idealism translated into policy prescription; a process founded in Platonist thought and prefigured by the repeated failure of communal idylls.

The flow of growth is a constant in enterprise. Bare survival requires thrift and yields caution as a lack of resource demands careful husbanding. The elevation of living standards resulting from the accumulation of wealth creates opportunities for leisure and expansive resource deployment. It creates an environment that is the seed of charity. It is true in industry. It is true in personal finance. It is true in government.

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