Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D. is a materials physicist, self-owned, a benevolent and tolerant Objectivist, a husband and father, the owner of a materials analysis laboratory, and a thinking individualist. The critical battle of our day is the conflict between the individual and the state. We must be ever vigilant and constant defenders of the equal sovereign rights of every individual to life, liberty, property, self-ownership, and the personal pursuit of happiness.
... the *main* target of individualists' moral proselytizing ought to be the Zero-Sum Narrative, i.e., the belief in inherent conflicts of interest among people -- and not altruism per se, which is mainly an emotionally driven *reaction* to the zero-sum worldview. We need to teach people that economic relationships in a free society are "win/win," not "win/lose." We need to teach what 19th-century thinker Frederic Bastiat labeled "Economic Harmonies."
"Closing Off Consumption Opportunities. Just as low-income individuals in their role as producers are increasing[ly] regulated out of income earning opportunities, in their role as consumers they are increasingly regulated out of the market for essential services. In addition to education and housing, they have been regulated out of the market for medical care, transportation and even police protection. For all these essential services, the wealthy turn to the private marketplace. They even employ police officers as off-duty, private guards for their gated communities. The poor are left with public housing, public schools, public transportation, government-provided health care, etc.
The well-off get all the benefits of capitalism. The poor are left with socialism."
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. "
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
"The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods."There is historical precedent for the level of hubris of the Progressive Elitist rulers of our time. Just as James I tried to rule independently of Parliament with a claim of god-like knowledge, so does Obama rule independently of our Congress, secure in the belief that he too has a god-like knowledge of what is best for the People.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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Funny. I think she has my vote.
John, you probably do not get the chance to vote for many good Illinois State Senate candidates there in Chicago. Perhaps some years ago you had the opportunity to vote for the opponent of one Barack Obama, but that did not work out very well. Of course, Chicago must have a few of the state senatorial districts and some may vote more wisely than did the one once represented by Obama.
I haven't seen the video yet (I have a troublesome dialup connection), but my first reaction to making a succinct description of the Obamacare situation is:
"You can't repair a broken elevator by shoving more people into it. It will only go down -- and not in a good way."
Harry, that is even more succinct, but Dr. Bellar is a bit funnier. Come to think of it, crashing elevators full of people are not funny at all.
Of course, the crisis of the Medicare and Medicaid systems as they would have been without the added burden of ObamaUncaringTax was never funny either.
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