I was going to save this to share with you this weekend, but it is simply to good and real and true.
And yes, I read this to my kids. And guess what? My eldest daughter said, “So what’s new? We should think for ourselves and it’ll all be OK.”
This I did NOT read to my kids, but I think I will print it for the two eldest to read individually. I do not ascribe to any parties belief system in whole, but I do think that both of these blog posts have more good merits than bad. Far more good than bad.
South of the Fork 
“As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or in the better case, what A, B, and C shall do for X…What I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who never is thought of….
He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays…”
-William Graham Sumner, Yale University, 1883
(this quote inspired a most excellent book on the Great Depression, “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shlaes)
What an absolutely fabulous quote, CB. Fabulous.