Posted on 02/28/2009 7:49:58 AM PST by Publius
Well written.
LOL!
Thank you for the clarification. I don’t blame the MSM for Obama’s election, however, I believe that the MSM did not thoroughly investigate him, and had they done so, the outcome may have been different.
McCain did not help his cause, and FRankly, I am embarrassed that he got the nomination.
HST, the Republicans missed a golden opportunity in 1994 to defeat LIEberalism, and as you stated, spent themselves out of office.
Perhaps Obama’s election will cause a true conservative party?
I’m expecting the Republicans to purge themselves of the Olympia Snowe’s and Susan Collins.
Republicans allowed themselves to compromise too much in order to stay in power. Power became the goal, rather than taking care of the nation.
Roger that!
This will be an expensive lesson for the American people — perhaps in a few years the American people will really understand the all too real dangers of the LIEberal mentality and will have purged those who hold such notions FRom the body politic?
“Power became the goal, rather than taking care of the nation.” [And, I might add, preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution.]
Just so! In AS, Rand warns us of the dangers of that notion.
One wonders how she was so prescient in that respect?
Research being different from development.
What...actually face reality? HORRORS!
Rand was deadly accurate when it comes to foretelling the consequences of government and business getting in bed together. I’ve seen “Atlas Shrugged” called “cartoonish and shallow” but, if AS is cartoonish, what does that make our current society, which resembles AS so well?
My concern is that much of the “stimulus” spending is actually designed to keep the libs in power. Even if we do have a solid conservative Republican party, if the media, the schools, the census redistricting, and the perpetuation of the “culture of gimme” are stacking the deck in their favor, we will still lose elections.
I’ll be referring to the LIEberals as looters in the future.
And, you are correct — the “stimulus” is to stimulate keeping the looters in power.
We have a tough road ahead of us.
Liberals think that people are too stupid to think for themselves and take responsibility for knowing what the date is. -- rlmorel
Aside from the fact that it's done with the public money I don't find it any more paternalistic than a time/date/temperature sign on the side of the bank. To me it's more symbolic of a fiddling-while-Rome-burns preoccupation with trivia when society is running off the rails (literally in AS's case).
What the government should be saying to themselves is "Nothing works. People who make things work are nowhere to be found. Is this the result of something we did and if so we'd better get about un-doing it post haste. If, on the other hand, this problem isn't due to something we did, we better leave well enough alone because it would be arrogant to think we can make it better. We work for the government so it's a given that anything we do will make the problem worse, which is why we're government employees instead of having actual jobs."
Now I realize that you all are more familiar with Rand and with AS than I, and whatever happens to the calendar in future chapters may have tipped you off to the motives that led to its creation, but that was the way it seemed to me at first blush.
Oops. Meant to include you in the to: for my last post. Publius had some nice things to say about the line I quoted.
That would make a great tag line if it were shorter.
Aside from the fact that it's done with the public money I don't find it any more paternalistic than a time/date/temperature sign on the side of the bank.
If the display showed date, time and temperature, I would agree with you. But it's done with public money at the Mayor of New York's orders, and it only shows the date and nothing else. That makes me agree with "rlmorel" that there is the whiff of paternalism there. A caldendar display leaving out time and temperature is like a freeway bridge that constricts to two lanes. It's typical of government and not up to the job.
Most gracious of you.
It has bothered me that I have missed this excellent thread due to work over the last two months...I am going to try to re-engage if I can.
I began re-reading “The Road to Serfdom” again, and boy, it is hitting me just as powerfully as “Atlas Shrugged”. More so, because it shows where we could be going.
Interesting take. I admit that to an extent the absence of time and date for some reason makes me lean a little more towards your interpretation.
“I began re-reading “The Road to Serfdom” again, and boy, it is hitting me just as powerfully as “Atlas Shrugged”. More so, because it shows where we could be going.”
And Hayek was describing what had ALREADY HAPPENED, so it wasn’t just blind supposition.
Kirk
How about "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't teach, administrate. Those that can't administrate, have gubmint jobs."
LOL !!!!
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