Nightmare or Dream?

09/09/2005 Mises Wire B.K. Marcus

This 10-minute video made in 1947 is designed to convince us all that the survival of the federal government (in the form of Congress) is critical to our well being. With its supposed nightmare of state currencies and militias, and a country without a post office, it is hilarious and, well, unpersuasive.

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