The Tom Wood Show, Episode 2140.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.

The Tom Wood Show.

Folks, I don't know about you, but I am running into a lot of progressive saying, look, police,

fire, schools, these are all great examples of socialism.

Well, let's focus on that school example.

I've got a free e-book called Education Without the State that makes a pretty darn good case

for a stateless approach to education.

Pick it up at nostateeducation.com.

Everybody, Tom Woods here.

Germanel G. Van is back with us again.

We're going to continue our conversation that we had a couple episodes ago.

On his book, Black Culture and Generational Poverty, A Historical, Economic and Sociological

Analysis, we barely scratched the surface last time, but now we'll

dig a little bit deeper.

There's a lot of material here.

You're covering really, I think, all the major things that need to be hit.

And that includes a chapter on the welfare state and the role that the welfare state plays.

And this seems, it's hard for some people to accept because it seems as if people who

think that the poor should get various payments if they're in particularly dire circumstances.

Well, that seems like it can only have benign results.

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