(11-05-2016, 03:03 PM)taramarie Wrote:(11-05-2016, 06:50 AM)Galen Wrote: The other one kept a small farm going until the early eighties when he died due to brain cancer. Truth is I hadn't had much contact with him since about 1972. Given the increasing capital requirements over the years, that was an impressive achievement. To this day, the only person I have contact from that side of the family is with is his second wife. She is truly a decent person and I don't meet many of those. While the genetics may say otherwise, she was where I would expect a grandmother doing what I would expect one to be doing.What does that mean? What do you expect one to do?
I have written of my grandmother and great-grandmother so that defined my expectations. She defied him while he was alive by keeping in contact with us. His first wife died of cancer about five years before I was born.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises