I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.

Now's not that time.

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

Oh, why everything?

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

Don't be afraid.

I'll be afraid of you, dad.

Prepare to unshackle your mind.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

Your professor has arrived.

Tom Woods.

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

The Tom Woods Show. And hello everybody on this Thursday, October 3rd, 2013.

Today I'm riding solo on the show. Once in a while I want to just comment on something.

And you all know these days I've got so much going on. This Ron Paul homeschool curriculum is just murdering me. I mean, it's unbelievable. Every course I need to do 180 videos because it's 36 weeks, five lessons per week, 20 to 25 minutes each per lesson.

If you'd like to get a sense of what I'm covering in Western Civ 1 that is sapping the life

out of me, in a good cause, by the way, check out Tom Woods.com slash Western Siv. So what this

means is that in the old days, the old days of like three months ago,

I used to be able to see an article and then I could write a blog post with my response and it would be great,

I'd be happy and satisfied, and I could go about my day and not feel that I had left something undone.

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