I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what fraction of their incomes they should devote to providing for their own or someone else's old age.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.