what i want to share with you in this in this hour release to kick it off it'll
pick up your calls on uh... on this and other topics of the day
uh... is
but personal somebody called
yesterday in fact sue is asking me last night she sent me this the this request
an email and i spent uh...
you know at that time to time
goin thru my collection of thomas jefferson's works uh... much-touted and
in an electronic version now and so i can search at you know searchable were
documents
looking for this uh... you know uh... ke comment about
uh...
well thank you it
people people whose goal was profit corrupting the government
but i had read to you earlier last week
and shale pointed out to me that was alexander hamilton now thomas jefferson
side mixed up in my head
probably when i read it to you like
correctly attributed to hamilton
uh... hopefully i did
uh... because i was reading the actual quote which i still don't have in front
of it
but the but but
the other the quote that so we called during the show in last two hours master
dot
was not that one it was the one about you know if there's too much well for
too much wealth inequality
we should raise taxes
and i wanna share this whole thing with you because this is so brilliant
this is a letter dot it member james madison was thomas jefferson's protege
he was younger than thomas jefferson needs the jefferson had kind of take him
under his arm and
and he was also has signed the jefferson although he they were they're opposing
relatively close in age pity
madison was his protege madison was president
after jefferson madison is the secretary of state in the jefferson administration
they were neighbors
uh... they've been virginia
uh... mobile e eight month earlier was uh... madison's
of whatever
parm
uh... jefferson's was uh...
was marginal
but here's this letter twenty eight october seventeen eighty five jefferson
is in france he's the u_s_ envoy to france
we've just been we've we've won the war
we are operative of the articles a confederation
jefferson is our ambassador to france for all practical purposes
he writes this letter to his best friend in the world and his protege james
madison
every person alone
seven o'clock and retired to my fireside
i determine to enter into conversation with you and i was going to tell you
something about is
this far turn blue
uh... is a diligent about five thousand habitats
where the court is not here and there is the the king doesn't have a novice
and and there's no government office
and twenty thousand when they are
when the king is there
and occupy a valley through which runs a brock n on each side of it they were
ridge of small mountains most of which are naked rock became comes here in the
fall always to haunt
escort attention as to the foreign diplomatic corps
town swells from five thousand twenty thousand the king comes to hunt
but this is not indispensable a required in mid bases id
uh...
but that but as this is not indispensable required of my finances
did not admit the expense of a continued residents here have proposed to come
occasionally to it it attend the king's levees returning again to paris dispute
forty miles
this being my first rep i set out yesterday morning to take a few of the
place
now just want to walk
uses for this purpose a shaped like war scored the highest in the mountains in
sight to the top of which was about a lead
as soon as i got my citizens they are clear the town
i fell in with the poor woman walking at the same rate with myself from going the
same course
wishing to know the condition of the laboring poor
high-energy conversation with her
which i began by enquiries
for the path which would lead me into the mountainous foresees ask your
directions like you know the waste raking up a conversation
invents proceeding to enquiries into her vocation condition in circumstance
there is what the what what kind of job that she do
and uh... how does she look
she told me she was a day labor
eight suits
or four deasterling the day
i don't have any what
the how to translate that into mar mine
and she had two children a maintain and repair ran for thirty liver is for her
house
which we consume the higher of seventy five days
so presumably what he's saying is that she had to work seventy five days to pay
for her house for the year so three months or sobha about a order bring gum
was rent
that often she did get no employment
and of course was without bread
as we walked together nearly a mile and she had so far served me as a guy i gave
her on partying
twenty-four suits
died again i don't know how much money that is
but i don't get a lot
because as a day labor this woman's earning eighths's willis is three days
income for her but still it's down after buy bread
she'd burst into tears of gratitude with which i put creek perceived was on
fainted
there she was unjust
making this up because she was unable to utter a word should probably never
before receive so great in aid
this little
on tape
debris semel
with the solitude of my walk
i'm sorry i don't know what their word means it's probably going to trip id
uh... with the solitude of my walked led me into a train of reflections
on the on equal division of property
which occasions than number elice instances of wretched nis which i had
observed in this country france
and is to be observed all over europe
the property of this country is absolutely concentrated in a very few
hans
having revenues
of from half a million guineas the year downwards
these
his dream of the rich people who uh... these few hands
these employ the flower of the country as servants some of them having as many
as two hundred domestics not laboring employee also a great number of
manufacturers in tradesmen lastly the class of laboring husband and
has been mint
uh... permits
but after all these comes the most numerous of all the classes that is the
perfor who cannot find work
i ask myself what could be the reason
there's so many should be permitted to beg who are willing to work
in a country where there is a very considerable portion of uncalled evaded
lands
these lands are kept idle mostly for the sake of game
they were selecting can go they're hot
it's should seem them there must be because of the enormous wealth the
proprietors which places them above attention to the increase in the
remedies by permitting these lands belabored
unconscious
jefferson says
dead-end equal division of property is impractical right we can just split up
into that everybody
but the consequences of this enormous inequality produces so much misery the
bulk of mankind legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdivide
the property only taking care let their subdivisions go hand in hand the natural
affections of the human mind
there is he saying this practitioner you've broken up and given the people
eases the descent a property of every kind therefore to all the children
or to all the brothers sisters or other relations and equal degree is a politic
measure of practicable once
another means of stopping lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all
from taxation below a certain point and attacks the higher portions of property
in june after corporations as they arise
whenever there is in any country uncalled abated lands
and on employment more
it is clear
but the laws of property have been so parts that it has to violate natural
rights
the earth is given as a common stock firm and the labor and move on if for
the encouragement of industry we ought to be appropriated west famous daycare
that other employment must be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation
if we do not
the fundamental right to labor the earth returns to the employer does he say
give the unemployed the land
this is the common hardman program forward now thomas jefferson karl marx
give the unemployed the land is not being used to it can labor if they can
begin to something