This, from my friend Dr. Tom Palmer at the Atlas Network –
“After tens of thousands of years on this earth, in our lifetime we have witnessed the greatest poverty eradication in human history. In 1990 35% of humans or 1.85 billion were living in poverty. Thirteen years later that number had fallen to 10.7% or 767 million people.
Liberty is coordinate with equality, with justice and with peace, for what we seek is equal liberty – under abstract rules that do not discriminate among persons, and that makes it possible for us to live in peace, each following his or her own plan of life, neither oppressing or being oppressed.
And what a world liberty has made possible! A world of increasing prosperity, of rising dignity, of health, education, art, of wonders that previous generations would never have imagined, much less aspired to. The poorest citizens of Europe have comforts no king or queen of old could have imagined.”
Thank you, Tom! Let us remember this, be grateful, and do our part to preserve liberty for the coming generations.