"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."

Ayn Rand

Rand put it best in her 1973 article, “Censorship: Local and Express”:

“The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories -- with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington . The liberals [the Democrats] see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe -- but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.”

Further on, she notes:
“…Each camp wants to control the realm it regards as metaphysically important; each grants freedom only to the activities it despises….. ‘Control,‘ to both camps, means the power to rule by physical force. The conservatives want to rule man’s consciousness; the liberals, his body.”

Sunday, February 15, 2009

We NEED This?

Chris O’Brien, in his San Jose Mercury News opinion piece “It's Time to Start Paying for the Government Services We Need”, says we’ve deluded ourselves long enough and now it’s time to raise both taxes and spending. Apparently nearly $2 trillion in bailout spending in addition to the usual bloated budget isn’t enough. Mr. O’Brien seems to have forgotten that we have the inalienable right to the PURSUIT of happiness, not the right to happiness. Our government was not created to satisfy all our wants and needs. Mr. O’Brien and his friends in Congress would do well to keep in mind the above words from Thomas Jefferson: "...a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."

Read Mr Obrien's article here:

http://tinyurl.com/bgsu8f

As I've written before, you could tax all the "rich folks" at a rate of 100% and spread it around to the world's common people, and everyone might be able to buy themselves a Chevy. Then what? Well, the producers whose money you stole would be out of business. Now would that make you "happy"? No more Walmart, Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, Honda, Samsung, Toyota, UPS, Canon, Dell, Budweiser, etc. You get the idea. Name a product you own and chances are the company that produces it makes a lot of money selling it. Too much money, you say? By what standard? Do we have a right to property or not? If we only have a right to some of our property, then we have no right. It's like having a right to part of your life, but then at 40 the rest belongs to your neighbor.
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