Rights.com Quotation of the Day, 18 September 2009

[Chris Riley]

There are, after all, two natural equilibriums for the welfare state:
one in which the majority benefits at the expense of the minority,
and the other in which the minority benefits at the expense of the
majority. Once the welfare state reaches a certain relative size, the
first is ruled out by the facts of life, and the second by the nature
of democracy. That leaves only the borderline situation in which half
try to gain from the other half. That circumstance, I would argue, so
weakens government as to imperil democracy as well.

G. Warren Nutter
economist and Defense Department official, January 1975, reported
December 11, 2000 Wall Street Journal. On the political outcome of
the growth of the welfare state starting in the Great Depression.
Robert L. Bartley continues: 'Yet the Republican half of our even
division by and large represents the producers of wealth. And the
Democratic half by and large represents recipients of governmental
favors.'
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[Chris Riley]

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does
not mean that everything in life is relative.
Albert Einstein
1929, on attempts to use relativity as a scientific explanation for
why there could be no objective truth. See David Bodanis, E=mc(*2):
A Biography of the World's most Famous Equation.(1879-1955)