A Refugee Crisis is the Health of the State
September 12, 2015
That’s what I’ve learned from being in Europe (Bodrum, Turkey and London) the past few days and hearing all about the “migrant” crisis. Governments are falling all over each other to set up new bureaucracies to “deal” with the “crisis.” Never let a good crisis go to waste, as Rahm Emanuel once said. Of course, the refugees are caused by the American war machine and its interventions in the Middle East, so this is just a footnote to the old saying that “war is the health of the state.”
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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