Conservative Acknowledgment of the Day

Of course there is not one lever you can simply pull to create a big society. We should not be naive enough to think that simply if government rolls back and does less, then miraculously society will spring up and do more. —David Cameron of the Conservative Party, recently elected Prime Minister of the UK, as reported by the BBC

I am so disappointed. Here I was, thinking that the only thing society needed was for the government to reduce taxes and get out of the way of the capitalists.

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