tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post1293091431096690026..comments2024-02-21T17:30:40.448-05:00Comments on An Objectivist Individualist: Krugman and Schramm: The Fool and the Wise ManCharles R. Anderson, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-56669564019435038082016-11-19T21:03:44.283-05:002016-11-19T21:03:44.283-05:00You may well be right. Once government becomes as ...You may well be right. Once government becomes as large as it is, it is necessarily doing great harm to many to give favors to others. When government exceeds the bounds of its legitimate function of protecting everyone's individual rights, it begins to violate the rights of some for the benefit of others. It claims to be doing so under the rule of seeking the greater good for the greater number, but in so doing it admits that it is hurting many and violating their rights. Legitimate government does harm to no one who is not themselves violating the rights of others. Our government is four or five times larger than it would be if it lived by the legitimate principle of only protecting individual rights, so it is in the practice of doing a great deal of harm to many people. From there it is but a minor transition to a form of government in which a few favored friends with pull in government get especially big rewards at the expense of most of the people. This is the expected outcome of big government. The best to be hoped for would be a reduction of such cronyism, but since Trump is not noteworthy for his allegiance to the American Principle of Legitimate Government being limited to the protection of individual rights, I have to expect that he, like many other Presidents, will corrupt government with a great deal of cronyism.Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-20293478299969981942016-11-19T19:55:23.131-05:002016-11-19T19:55:23.131-05:00Bannon:
“Like [Andrew] Jackson’s populism, we’re g...Bannon:<br />“Like [Andrew] Jackson’s populism, we’re going to build an entirely new political movement,” he says. “It’s everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I’m the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it’s the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Ship yards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We’re just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution — conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement.”<br /><br />Oh boy... I'll wait to see what the proposed means will be, but those words sound like just cheating for a different set of people. Sigh.<br />threnodynoreply@blogger.com