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Стивен Ликок. While There is Time: The Case Against Social Catastrophe
While There is Time: The Case Against Social Catastrophe
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Chapter I. THE GATHERING CRISIS
Chapter II. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
Chapter III. THE UTOPIA OF SOCIALISM
Chapter IV. SOCIALISM IN THE CONCRETE
Chapter V. ESCAPE
Chapter VI. TO DEVELOP CANADA
Chapter VII. PROVINCES AND RACES
Chapter VIII. CANADA AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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This broad platform of what we are beginning to call social security corresponds closely to the recommendations of the (Sir William) Beveridge Report prepared for the British Government and to the semi-official reports made under the auspices of our Dominion Government. Still more notable is the endorsation of this general idea of the responsibility of all for the welfare of each as given in the “Second Bill of Rights,” recently presented to Congress by the President of the United States. The first “bill of rights,” commonly so called, is found in the first ten Amendments appended en bloc in 1789 to the Constitution of the United States of 1789. These guarantee political freedom, the right of free speech, free assembly, freedom from arbitrary government, from illegal arrest, from cruel or unusual punishment. The clauses bear the stamp of their epoch in being negative, not positive: They forbid ill-treatment of the citizen but, of themselves, they neither feed nor clothe nor shelter him. He is still free to starve. A hundred years has taught us that liberty bakes no bread. The milestone of progress is marked with this change from the negative obligation laid on the state to let people alone, all that was asked in the morning of political liberty, to the positive duty of the state to help people on their way, a lesson learned not in the first joy of the morning of hope but in the burden and heat of the day.
None of these platforms of social security count the cost: none of them explain, to use the simple business term, “where the money is to come from.” I think it well that they do not, for this indicated field of government expenditure seems to me the first charge on the list, taking precedence of everything else: and I am one among the many millions of people who think that these things can be done.
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