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With the country crumbling around them, slipping into starvation, riots, and open civil war due to their constant economic bungling, the president and his fellow powercrats were desperate to track down the one man they believed could save their failing regime and force that man to become their economic dictator.
Eventually they arrested him and dragged him before the TV cameras where they forced him to explain to the country what they had dubbed the "John Galt Plan." Galt's explanation, as he moved abruptly sideways to expose the gun poking against his ribs, was "get the hell out of my way!"
Of course every dedicated philosophy major that industriously studied their Atlas Shrugged Cliffs Notes in college knows exactly what Galt was talking about.
If our powercrats today really wanted to help us, rather than help themselves, they would get the hell out of our way.
In a truly libertarian society the more demand there is for healthcare and health insurance the more the healthcare and health insurance providers would stumble over each other to offer a better and better array of options at lower and lower prices.
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In a truly libertarian society the more demand there is for mortgage products and mortgage insurance the more the mortgage and insurance providers would stumble over each other to offer a better and better array of options at lower and lower prices.
Want safety in drugs? Want safety in mortgage loans? In a truly libertarian society you'll get it, in spades. In shovelfuls of spades.
Sorry capitalistphobes, that's just the way real capitalism really works in the real world, as opposed to the corporatism we're saddled with today, which is fake capitalism.
In today's world the government intrudes into the free market with taxes, tariffs, fees, rules, regulations, subsidies, licensing, directives, mandates, and insider favoritism until everything is so thoroughly politicized that nothing works and then declares, "The free market has failed. What's needed is more government."
As for that president in Atlas Shrugged who was so desperate to stay in power that he was willing to kidnap and force someone of real competence to be his Economic Czar? He was called the "Head of the State" and Ayn Rand referred to the bureaucrats and the politicos in his administration as "looters." His name was simply Mr. Thompson.
Mr. Obama, meet Mr. Thompson.
Comments
OOOOH, Gary - that's wicked good. :)
Getting in someone's way like that is an initiation of force and can be legitimately defended against. It's a lesson that needs to be learned.
Excellent essay, Garry. Apropos. Link in place. best, Kay
simply AWESOME!
you have failed an exam in global economics... thanks for making stuff up... i guess only bush and the neocons who let the crisis escalate can sort this mess out, which they caused in the 1st place
this whole Glenn Beck culture is just about creating an illusion of fear... that's why he prefers post 911 world when the republicans did whatever they wanted, creating a gigantic deficit and helping out rich friends of theirs... republicans will hate everything obama stands for even if that means hating american values and creating bogus claims with no evidence to back them up
"Mr. Obama, get out of our way"
he was elected, you weren't...YOU get out of the way!
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