Abraham Lincoln vs. Barack Obama

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It seems that the thought that "times are evil because people are evil" is making the rounds:

Some time ago I think I wrote about Rick Santorum making the case that, in order to improve the economy and increase the productive vigor of the American people, we needed to increase the morality of the American people.---Ace

The thrust of the piece is that people aspire to work and need to work.  The times may be bad because the current administration doesn't seem to think that people need to work, that not to work means more freedom.  Hence the administration is contributing to some bad morality.  There are numerous quotes from Lincoln on the subject, which is to contrast with what the current administration has to say on labor.

The thought segues into the thought I had yesterday on this subject.  Who's fault is it if the morality of the people goes bad?   Are the people to blame, or is it the leadership?  I'm thinking the leadership because people tend to be sheep, they just tend to follow wherever the leadership takes them.  To improve the times, you need better leaders.  But how do you do that?  Any prospective leader could say that he is better than that other guy.  How do you know?

Update:

Here's a link through that thread that may be interesting reading.


How happy should we be about ACA supply-side responses to work less?