I, Pencil....

[CGWildcat]

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

A lot goes into the making of a pencil....

" 'I, Pencil' is a typical Leonard Read product: imaginative, simple yet subtle, breathing the love of freedom that imbued everything Leonard wrote or did. As in the rest of his work, he was not trying to tell people what to do or how to conduct themselves. He was simply trying to enhance individuals' understanding of themselves and of the system they live in.

That was his basic credo and one that he stuck to consistently during his long period of service to the public—not public service in the sense of government service. Whatever the pressure, he stuck to his guns, refusing to compromise his principles. That was why he was so effective in keeping alive, in the early days, and then spreading the basic idea that human freedom required private property, free competition, and severely limited government".

[dan_bgblue]

Thanks for the link Coastie. That is well worth anyone's time to read. I actually got one of those rare tingly chills when I read the last paragraph.