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Title: Heritage Foundation for middle schoolers
Review: I quite agree with the author that personal responsibility, ethics, choices, and consequences are primary to a person's successful functioning. I also agree it's primary to "teach a man to fish," rather than giving him a fish. Where we part company is how to bring that teaching about. What emerges here is a thin and regurgitated paean to a utopian free-market system, again bending poor old Adam Smith's words to the intent of the privatize/deregulate crowd, while blithely skipping over the infinity of human complexity, actual (as opposed to sanitized and imagined) history, and the recent/current demonstrations of political and fiscal irresponsibility we're shuddering through as we speak. In a phrase: don't bother.
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