George Washington said,"A primary object...should be the education of our youth in the science of government..." We must take on this task of educating our children about the correct functioning of our governments very seriously; we need to learn from great thinkers of the past and present. A good beginning would be Frederic Bastiat, a French economist, statesman, and author, who wrote an imposing treatise called The Law in the mid 1800's. This was a time when France was on the verge of converting to complete socialism . He spends considerable time talking about one of the elements of socialism: legal plunder, he asserts that legal plunder is "when the law takes property from one person and gives it to another "