# The Boiling Frog and Liberty | Berlin Royalties

> We are the boiling frog. Our liberty is evaporating before us and we are distracted by the promises of entitlements we cannot afford.

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## The Boiling Frog and Liberty

By **Stephen Clayman** · February 29, 2016

We are the boiling frog. Our liberty is evaporating before us and we are distracted by the promises of entitlements we cannot afford.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." -Winston Churchill

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