06/10/2020
Today's Hero of Liberty is still out there fighting for our freedom.
John Frank Stossel started out as one of those consumer advocates who calls for state intervention in your choices.
But he's a rare example of a journalist who is honest and smart enough to realize when he's wrong, and change.
In his own words:
"I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people.
"But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer.
"It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market."
Having turned over a new leaf, John used his journalistic expertise to carry the message of freedom and community to generations of new people.
John Stossel's Dank Meme 'Stache
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stossel
"What private property does is connect effort to reward,
creating an incentive for people to produce more.
"Then, if there's a free market,
people will trade their surpluses to each other for the things they lack.
"Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer."
— The Tragedy of the Commons
"I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse."
"I suppose beat reporters who cover people like Babbitt and Gephardt are reluctant to offend because they may need the powerful people’s cooperation tomorrow. I didn’t worry about cooperation tomorrow, so I kept offending people today."
