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A Reason to Be Republican

By Ben Stein on 10.9.12 @ 6:08AM

A reading from Hayek via Bartlett’s.

So, I am in my parents’ apartment at the Watergate. This has been a tumultuous trip. Both Alex and I have been both sick and ill. But Alex has been sweetly following me down the hall at the Watergate when I go to the elevator. That’s what my mother used to do. She would trudge behind me silently, get in the elevator with me, just look at me, then go back upstairs with a tear in her eye. This went on for about ten years before she died.

Now Alex — sometimes — does the same thing. These acts of love by the women in my family overwhelm me. I am just humbled. Moved deeply.

Then, tonight, to make matters worse, I talked to a dear pal of years ago from Hollywood. She was incredibly good to me for decades. Now, she has COPD and she says she has six months more to live at most. I am overwhelmed, once again. This is a truly great woman.

But right now, which is Sunday, I am looking in my favorite book, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, for a quote by Hayek about how you cannot clearly associate economic effects with economic causes because so many different circumstances are at work each time.

I cannot find that quote in this edition — maybe a 1976 edition — but I did find a better one from Hayek which I paraphrase here: the attempt at social justice causes more misery than almost any other factor in human life (again, a paraphrase).

Yes. The Communists. The Jacobins. The Communards. The Maoists. The Khmer Rouge. They all caused untold suffering in the phony and vain attempt to make everyone equal… phony because it was just a fig leaf for terrible people to seize power.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough. If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Yet another reason to be a Republican. Give everyone an equal shot — but do not require equal outcomes or even roughly equal outcomes by law. That way lies catastrophe.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac… that way lie the tumbrels and the guillotine.

About the Author

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.

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aware| 10.9.12 @ 6:23AM

Hayek was no Republican, Ben. But you sure are. Here's some Bastiat for you to think about.

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. "

"The plans differ; the planners are all alike... "

"Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice."

Jack in Wi| 10.9.12 @ 7:57AM

Ben needs to read more Rothbard and Von Mises to broaden his outlook. I lost a great friend yesterday and have lost 4 other pals this year alone. I can feel Ben's pain on losing friends.

Joellen| 10.9.12 @ 8:17AM

Jack, sorry to hear of your loses. May you be in GOD's peace.

TLP| 10.10.12 @ 8:16AM

Once again, the N*gro gets a pass.

"I think he's equally Misguided".

He's ANOTHER White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating/Black Muslim Loving radical PIECE OF S**T. Just like his Homeboy - that Homo in the White House.

This "Professor" LOVES Jeremiah Wright. He LOVES Louis Farrakhan. He LOVES Van Jones, Al Sharpton, The Black Panthers, The Nation of Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood, Chavez, Castro, and I'mahandajob in Iran.

What he doesn't like is WHITEY and JEWBOY.

Guys like Ross, still wanna Play the Game with one hand tied behind their backs. Bulls**t.

Go to Drudge. Watch the Video of these Black Sc*mbags, as they go on the Rampage, in Virginia, ripping down people's Romney Signs from Private Property. Look at the Video of the White Schoolteacher being Knocked Out by one of these Cckcsckrs, with a Sucker Punch, and then Laugh all the way to their Next Crime.

Detroit has OFFICIALLY become a No Go Zone.

Don't believe me. Ask Detroit's Police Chief.

Cleveland and Oakland look like Post Apocalyptic Hellholes, crawling with Mutants.

OBAMAPHONE! ROMNEY SUCKS!

Poor Dear. She sounds so misguided.

Hill is a Piece of Garbage.

Period.

And, people like Ross, will GET IT, when these ANIMALS attack Him and His.

When they Steal His Stuff, and Kill His Loved Ones.

Until then?

I'm the bad guy. But, I'm not Misguided.

I'm a No Good Racist, who needs to be CENSORED!

Just you wait.

Von Mises Jr| 10.9.12 @ 9:38AM

You are correct Jack.
Mises, Hayek and Rothbard all stood firmly for free market capitalism. I have read about twenty of their books and find no basis for aware to think that any of them approve of the socialist in the Democrat Party today.
Of course, that does not mean that the Democrats of yesteryear were anything like today's liberal, progressive socialist flavor.
And likewise, they would not approve of many things that come from the Establishment GOP. Fortunately, Romney and Ryan are touting free markets and liberty.

I also send my condolences. Two of the people I like the most in family circles are struggling with cancer. I pray for them and thank the Lord I do not have to deal with that Cross.

Trish| 10.9.12 @ 11:00AM

Trish Trotter here.

Dear Mr. Stein,

I read your columns to hear about your dogs, but you don't mention them much any more. How's Julie Good Girl?

Sorry to hear about you and your wife's constant illnesses, but, as I have told you before, sleeping with your dogs is not good for your health.

Go to my website SleepyWeepyPuppyPeepee. com and you can learn why sleeping with dogs can be injurious to your health.

Trish Trotter (I love dogs--I'm just wild about them, but I do not sleep with them!)

More of my advice on dogs at SleepyWeepyPuppyPeepee.com

scotchieguy| 10.10.12 @ 11:10AM

There is no reason to have dogs sleep on your bed. None. I trained my beagle to not even get near any of the furniture or beds. He is content sleeping on the rug and sun bathing when it is cold in the winter. They are afterall just dogs, not humans.

aware| 10.9.12 @ 7:18PM

Some people just cannot comprehend that anti-State, anti-political class, anti-Establishment, and just plain anti-social cannot possibly translate into "Democrat" or "leftist". You missed Rothbard's "Betrayal of the American Right" in your readings? And maybe Mises' "Bureaucracy"(his absolute best)?

And Jack, my sympathies also. Been there often.
Memento mori, my friend.

Von Mises Jr| 10.9.12 @ 8:36PM

From the Mises website - Rothbard is admonishing RINO's for not standing for conservative principles. He is claiming that liberals have infiltrated the Republican Party or some have sold out to statism. I don't understand what the hell you are talking about.

"Betrayal of the American Right is the full story, and the author is none other than Murray N. Rothbard, who witnessed it all first hand. He tells his own story and reveals that machinations behind the subversion of an anti-state movement into one that cheers statism of the worst sort."

aware| 10.10.12 @ 6:14AM

I've been almost alone for years here in quoting Rothbard. How can you not see Rothbardian Anarcho-Capitalism dripping in just about every post I make? How can you jump to the ridiculous conclusion I think this philosophy "approves of socialist Democrats"? Or that I do?

The difference between you and I(and Rothbard) is that I see the State as a vast criminal oligarchy that, like a career criminal, is impervious to "reform". You and many conservatives seem to believe that with the "right" people this abomination of force, murder, and organized theft can be used for "good". It is a deadly mirage to think this.

In order for the State to be "good" it must be rendered powerless not "reformed". Cut, not "streamlined". The constant tinkering with income tax rates instead of the abolition of income taxes is a perfect example of this mirage chasing.

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.9.12 @ 2:57PM

Running a Rockefeller liberal Romney means not only the GOP but also the Right in America no longer believes in conservatism.

chuck| 10.9.12 @ 8:59PM

Sorry for your loss Jack.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:24PM

That's nice, Jack. But I enjoy your pain.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 10.9.12 @ 6:24AM

When equal outcomes are guaranteed they never materialize. When equal outcomes are guaranteed you live under a failing dictatorship.

Appleby| 10.9.12 @ 7:06AM

Expecting equal outcomes is like commanding fifteen trombone players to make sure their slides go in and out in lockstep.

C. Vernon Crisler | 10.9.12 @ 7:13AM

Here's a nice quotation from Hayek:

"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." -- Friedrich Hayek.

Von Mises Jr| 10.9.12 @ 10:06AM

I believe it was Mises who said that capitalism is the most moral system. To take by force from those that do work to give to those who will not work creates moral hazard.
Statism is also is a strategy of Hubris and Pride that some men believe that they shall step in and play god since the True God did not, in their view, create a just world. If there is a Judgment, I wonder if they will give God a fail.

soljerblue| 10.9.12 @ 5:49PM

"If there is a Judgment, I wonder if they will give God a fail."

I'm inclined to think it might be the other way round.

Martin kzovich| 10.9.12 @ 7:25AM

No the thing is to be Conservative. The Republican leadership failed to counter the Left Ideology for decades, but now realizing the "logical conclusions " they are panicked. I am not so much for as against.
I am against the Communist Phonies that make up the letter D(emocrat ). Thus I vote Romney.

Joellen| 10.9.12 @ 8:22AM

If the Republican Party truly understands the destruction of communism, then they should do all in their power to break up Goverment Unions, especially TEACHER UNIONS. They run solely by communist logic and just look at the results, the students they have produced over the years. However, look at the concept of school vouchers and choice, well then you must have qualified teachers competing for jobs (just like the real world folks); thus setting the example for the "children". Would love to see the non existence of unions in my lifetime.

Von Mises Jr| 10.9.12 @ 9:59AM

In liberal blue states, you can see how the government unions are destroying the finances of the state and country, civil society and even the beneficiaries.
FBN reported that state pensions and retiree benefits are underfunded by 2.5 trillion. But if you do the math taking their other statistic that these plans are only 28% funded, it means that they only have less than $1T of the 3.5T to pay the defined pension and benefit plans.
My neighbor spiked his last few years teaching working summers and retired before age 60 with $80K plus almost $25K health plan for which he paid almost NO contributions. He drives his Audi to his beach house while the state is suffering high unemployment.
But even though these public employees are relatively nice people, they are brainwashed that they were promised and someone should pay. It will require a 20% property tax increase in our already highest taxed state in the nation to deal with the damage already wrought by this problem. So unless you have a government pension, the state becomes too expensive to live in retirement. I hope the last one to leave turns out the light.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:27PM

I pay entirely for my 403 B and contribute 50-50 to my pension fund. Minnesota is well funded.

Even the highest earning state employees can get no more that a 70% pension off of a max of $245K---that would be for 40 years work for the state. It is hard to start a psychiatry practice before age 30. When I retire at age 70, it will be about a 41% pension off of 245 K.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:28PM

By the way, MN had a 1.6 Billion SURPLUS, and this state employee voted straight GOP. What they reformed to in Wi., MN already does.

Aristocat| 10.10.12 @ 12:02AM

Yes, it could happen if enough states realize that education must be privatized.
Government schools are unconstitutional for many reasoss...

Intelligent Design| 10.9.12 @ 8:23AM

When we are all equal, we will all be slaves of the state.

Frank Drackman| 10.9.12 @ 9:17AM

Ben, You know how I know you're old?
You think Cadillac-yack-yack-yack-yacks are still status symbols...
Which they haven't been since I told my Great-Great Grandfather, Nathan Bedford George Wallace Robert E. Lee J.E.B Horowitz, that his Caddy was "da bomb".
See, it was an Oldsmobile Toronado(remember those) combining the efficiancy of Front Wheel Drive with 5,000 lbs of Detroit "Road Hugging" weight...
He finally made it, though, too bad it was a Cadillac Citation, I mean Cimmaron.
Which isn't really fair.
To the Citation, which you could at least get with an outrageous 140 Horse V-6....

Frank "Just Win Baby" Drackman

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 9:42AM

Democrats are attacking each other. All isn't well in blue land. It is amazing that both demographics are attracted to the same empty talk. This is what the big O's future looks like, everybody having the exact same degree of hopelessness.

http://www.wtae.com/news/local.....index.html

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 10:02AM

More trouble in blue land.

http://www.nationalreview.com/.....vis-hanson

The truth about California is really disturbing but needs to be studied. The people that live there are worse than the Greeks. Maybe the fiddling RCV will come by and lecture his intellectual betters on the rosy future of this type of governance and of course issue a reminder of his fine credentials. It never occurs to him that watching him make decisions makes the more intelligent wonder what is wrong with the credentials he prizes.

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 12:52PM

I just saw a clip of California'a finest waiting in a gas line with no earthly idea of what role they played in the high gas prices. When you elect functional idiots to office, there will always be a price to pay and they are paying it now. They were warned and payed no attention. It is so time for a change.

Lyneuss Fields | 10.9.12 @ 10:30AM

Jeez Ben, You're sounding more like President Obama every day. Look, he's been regurgitating your rant on the stump for at least a year. That is, "All hard working people deserve a fair shot on a level playing field". But alas, with most of the extremists on this website and throughout Congress, Brother Barack's—and apparently your—ideal is nothing more than a pipe dream.
http://lyneussfields.blogspot......ative.html

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 10:42AM

You are in the sway of a con man. The level playing field of the big O is a government worker's dream and collapse for everybody else. We can watch that great hope falling apart in Greece, Portugal, Italy, France, etc. without having to repeat the same stupid experiment here. It is time for a change.

Lyneuss Fields | 10.9.12 @ 12:35PM

You have absolutely no evidence—video or written—for your O assertion. Therefore, this extremist and invalid comment supports my conclusion. And by the way, does your definition of change mean more tax cuts, nation building exercises and military interventions? Besides Mormonism, this is one of Mitt Romney's biggest cons!
http://lyneussfields.blogspot......gious.html

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 12:47PM

More bad news for blue land:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012.....orkers-on/

Another jobs loser for the big O. Nobody could pick losers like the incompetent in the White House. You would think he would get lucky now and then. Time for a change. Obviously low IQs might explain big O supporters. The person above is a good example but what could explain the loss of the ability to do simple addition and subtraction in people that otherwise seem intelligent? All of them can be talked into wind power, high speed rail, wars on women, unaffordable birth control and on and on. You can't figure this kind of functional stupidity. Europe is in collapse and these bozos want to follow them right into the abyss.

Lyneuss Fields | 10.9.12 @ 1:18PM

Your argument changed from government workers in your first rant, to government-subsidized industries in your second. The problem I have here is not VOLT in itself, but subsidizing a planned economy. See, I also believe resources (tools of production) should move in the direction of goods and services which are demanded and away from those that are not. Therefore, I agree; green energy should be privately funded.
Lastly, America cannot eliminate government workers (teachers, firemen, cops) for it to safely function. That is the problem with your extremist rhetoric.

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 2:48PM

I wasn't really having a conversation with you, I was using you as an example. Criticism of the relationship between the corrupt Democratic Party and various government unions is not a call for the elimination of the police, firemen or teachers. You just play games trying to hide the corruption. Don't worry I don't expect much of you.

Lyneuss Fields | 10.9.12 @ 3:14PM

So, now we have more of your BS? Let me wrap this up for all you knuckle-dragging extremists. The fundamental idea most Liberals miss is that it's all about opportunity, not equality. Equality is a stinky fish—a red herring—designed to throw us all off the scent of the "economic environment" in which all Americans can prosper. Conservatives—on the other hand—have become lost somewhere between Reagan's supply-side ruse and rage over Clinton's barnyard emotional sex ridden ethics.
So what's the solution? The pill is both hard and bitter. Instead of stimulus spending, America must tighten its belt and raise taxes. This is because as all good economists know, increasing production also increases saving (investment) therefore increasing the interest rate. At a national debt of 17 trillion, this would equal 170 billion in interest on that debt for every point increase—sure death to America's economy.

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 5:12PM

Wow. You need to check yourself into rehab immediately. You are not just an idiot, you are crazed addict. Don't feel embarrassed with regards to your knuckles. Many primates have the same problem.

mike edelman| 10.9.12 @ 1:00PM

that is not a reason to be a republican ben..it is
a reason to be a rational voter who understands
that free markets are important to this nation
but unfettered free markets hurt all of us..and
it is a reason to find a balance between those who
want to provide for the least of us and those who
want only successfully financial people to thrive.
a reason not to be a republican is that the party
is now dominated by grover norquist and other
irrational people who believe in voo doo economics..its balance ben..balance

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 1:08PM

http://www.washingtontimes.com.....larger-sh/

The functional idiot above seems to think that we are very close to unfettered free markets. I tell you these folks can be talked into anything. It is time for a change.

Quanuck| 10.9.12 @ 10:47PM

Alan, watch the documentary "Agenda: Grinding America Down". At this point anyone running against 0bama needs to get him out of office. The line from Marx through CPUSA through Frank Marshall Davis through Bill Ayers through the homosexual agenda through the attack against Christianity through the attacks on morality all leads to 0bama. ANYONE but 0bama in November!

David in Ardmore| 10.9.12 @ 1:58PM

Mike,
I won't assume from where you derive your perverted logic, but it is precisely the reason our economy is teetering today; government meddling, seeking control of every nook and cranny of our lives in the name of better outcomes.

True liberalism does not seek equalization, it seeks opportunity, freedom, consequence and lessons learned. True liberalism despises government intervention, because government intervention ultimately favors the rulemaker(s) and the aligned, most often at the expense of the poor, weak and vulnerable.

This Age of Crisis Construction was not wrought from capitalists; it was wrought by socialists, corporatists, mercantilists, communists, fascists -- all those seeking the force of law to determine who makes money and who pays. Got it???

RichardJKelley| 10.9.12 @ 1:10PM

Right! Again! I keep waiting for you to get one wrong.

mike edelman| 10.9.12 @ 1:30PM

the functional idiot to which you refer is
a lifelong republican who holds both an
economics degree and a law degree and who understands MATH...which apprently you don't

Truth to Power| 10.9.12 @ 1:54PM

Nice try Mikey. A person can have lots of credentials and if he acts like an idiot he is still functionally an idiot. For instance a lifelong Republican who thinks that the government needs to get larger is definitely such a person. If I were you I would try to get your money back for your so-called education.

Drunken Sailor| 10.9.12 @ 5:53PM

All that education and you still fail basic grammar?

bluerabbit10| 10.9.12 @ 1:43PM

I am a Friend of Bill's since Sept 6, 1985 and enjoying life One Day At A Time. Just turned 80 September 22nd, so I know what you mean about losing friends from time to time. I enjoy your diary when ever you publish it, and envy your homesite in Idaho...Best to you and your wife and family...

Chef Schnauzer| 10.9.12 @ 2:30PM

Thanks, Ben. I started a business in '06, broke ground in '07 doors open in '09 .. .. .. it has been a hell of a grueling five/six years. Hope to break even this year. I can still smile (a little) at the prospect of getting rid of this socialist bastard Obama. I simply don't even entertain any of this communist / socialist crap in my area. The damage liberals have done to education, prisons, society, their precious social sub-groups, the economy is almost without total. Romney really is the last chance. I'm sorry for your friend. I sometimes think as I get older that had I know what it was going to be like to get old, I'd have had more fun. At least I found Bill W. too. Take care - PS that Cadillac Escalade is a current status symbol.

dickdata| 10.9.12 @ 2:46PM

I am an EXTEME liberal, and all I want is SOME attempt at equal opportunity - NOT equal opportunity in all cases, but an attempt to provide it.

Al Adab| 10.9.12 @ 3:19PM

DD:
Please define what you mean by equal opportunity. To many of it it simply means the chance to strive, no guarantees. How does that mesh with central control and statist liberalism?

Chef Schnauzer| 10.9.12 @ 3:25PM

Get off your ass, make your own opportunities - that's what I did. No one gave me the land to build the building, no one gave me the money to start my business, no one gave me the customer base I am developing - if fact - in fact - I am the last one the LAST one entitled to the fruits of my labor in socialist Obama land. I've been working on this business project since 2005, I sill sleep on an inflatable mattress in my office because ALL of the money goes into the business. MAYBE next year I'll get a pay check. When I have my fifth outlet - I'll relax a bit or die. But pal - you got to make your own way. I wake up and begin my working day at 5:00 AM seven days a week - the business closes at 7:00PM, I'm done by 8:00PM on a good day. If you can't make your own I really don't give a shit - but stay the hell out of my way 'cause I willing to work my ass off and take a risk.

Occam's Tool| 10.11.12 @ 9:17PM

Chef: may thy prosper.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:30PM

Well, explain how Solyndra does that, Mr. data.

The Fed Government should:
1) keep taxes down,
2) keep spending down,
3) bash our enemies overseas.

Big Bird makes a crapload in royalties.

SpiderMike| 10.9.12 @ 3:34PM

Not Hayek but. . .
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." ~ Aristotle

Bill8472| 10.9.12 @ 3:51PM

The worst thing about the utopians causing the damage they do is that when Plan A goes bad, they just move immediately to Plan B. Then Plan B goes bad, so they move to Plan C, which also goes bad. And on and on. Utopia just needs the right plan and if we keep on trying, we'll just get there.

I can understand the French or the Bolshevik Revolutions. Oppression breeds resentment and revolt. What I can't understand is the "Oops! Ten million killed! Well, we'll do it better next time. Back to the drawing board. Oops! Another ten million gone! Well, on to the next plan..."

Stormzeye| 10.9.12 @ 4:33PM

As Mark Twain would have said: The difference between Equality and Equality of Opportunity is like the difference between Lightening and a Lightening Bug.

Michael| 10.9.12 @ 5:23PM

Ben, I've known people who have lived for years with COPD. Improvements in life and medicine are happening each day. Tell them to just hang in there a little longer!!

Jeff Custer| 10.9.12 @ 5:31PM

Well said, Mr. Stein. Too many people believe everyone should be equal, and that is simply the wrong idea. As you said, everyone should have the same rights, but it should not extend beyond that. Keep up the good work!

Quanuck| 10.9.12 @ 10:29PM

Ben, you always seem to nail it. Not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac because not everyone is willing to WORK for that Cadillac. The way the government works is like an assembly line with no quotas. If ten people making widgets have to make 100 an hour to keep their jobs, that is how many the ten will make. If they are told if anyone makes more than 10 an hour, they will make $1 more an hour, those that want to make the extra money will. If they are to if the group will make an extra $1 an hour some will work harder, but those that hit the minimum will slack knowing the others who want the extra will put in the extra effort for them.. and that is the democrat/ communist way.

crs52| 10.10.12 @ 12:05AM

Ben Stein should take a good look at The current Neocon leadership of the Republican party. It has nothing in common with traditional conservative values, to which they pay only lip service. It should be obvious they don't believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility or representative government. An honest look at the eight years of Bush/Cheney should make that plain. What they do believe is that the goal of the US should be world domination. Just look at the Neocon bible, "Project for a New American Century." Anyone who knows their history can't fail to notice the chilling resemblance to the Nazis. (And now Romney has released his nearly identical "New American Century" and is taking the hawkish Neocon position. They can't wait to start World War III.) The Neocons have made a mockery of traditional conservative values, and until they are purged from the party I will NEVER vote Republican.

Brian Richard Allen | 10.10.12 @ 3:07AM

You're a Good Man, Mr Stein:.

Gary B| 10.10.12 @ 4:14AM

Yes, he is...

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