Barry Goldwater on economic planning

Barry Goldwater speech from "Barry Goldwater Speaks Out"., 1964 "It is my chore to ask you to consider... the need for a frontal attack against Santa Claus--not the Santa Claus of the holiday season, of course, but the Santa Claus of: --the free lunch --the government handout --the Santa Claus of something-for-nothing and something-for-everyone... I am against: --the double-talk that speaks of economy while acting to spend. --the gestures to free enterprise while planning new controls. --the direction of a government establishment that is prepared to nationalize society while paying for it with the fruits of private industry. --the direction of a government establishment that is prepared to spend and spend so that it may elect and elect. --the direction of a government establishment prepared to sacrifice the liberties of the many to cater to the demands of a few. --the direction of a government establishment that confuses local need with national necessity, trying to buy off today's problems with tomorrow's bankruptcy. --the direction of a nation being led to believe that relief programs can end poverty rather than only institutionalize poverty. --the direction of a nation that has built the greatest prosperity ever known, by individual initiative, but which now is tempted to forsake that initiative for the illusory comforts of government guardianship." - Goldwater "A few years ago, some called a family poor if its income was below $1,500. Now it is $3,000. Others say that any family is poor if it can't afford what the Department of Labor computes to be the standard of living of the average urban worker. In a country as wealthy as ours, it is implied, everyone should be above the average! An interesting statistical exercise!" - Goldwater "It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for." - Dorothy Sayers