Yoani Sánchez is a Cuban blogger and freedom-loving dissident. I just learned of her and her efforts. Cato posted an excellent piece by Sanchez, complete with a download of her article, Freedom and Exchange in Communist Cuba.
One line of the sampler that jumped out at me: "Now that the state is out of money and there are no more rights to exchange for benefits, the demand for freedom is on the rise." (Emphasis mine.)
Put in economic terms, an increase of domestic entitlements and government provisions requires an exchange, a trade-off of scare "goods." To actualize the nanny state you must give up your freedom. To empower the state to provide your nanny state you exchange your rights and freedoms, the scarcest of goods. Eventually, you run out of rights and freedoms to exhange.
