Staying home with the children and not having to work all the time just to get enough money to food is the result of capitalism and the resulting economic prosperity.  Labor saving devices and capital accumulation gave families the surplus savings to keep most of their family at home or at school.

Austrian Circle 28: Capitalism Gave Birth to the Modern Family

Presidents generally blame their lack of control over other people's lives as the problem.  They constantly seek more and more control and authority over the affairs of people all over the entire world, while their interventions are what causes the very problems they claim now require more intervention!  Here, we review the three major candidates and the problems with political action in general.

Austrian Circle 30: The Problem with Presidents

Government regulations do not accomplish their stated goals, (e.g. to protect the customer, increase quality of the product, reduce societal/environmental damage, etc).  Instead, they generally do the opposite by creating monopolies through the granting of privileges only to those able to spend the sometimes massive amount of capital necessary to comply with the regulations or to buy out those enforcing them.

Austrian Circle 29: Government Regulations - Keeping Us Safe?

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