“The president’s budget gives more power to bureaucrats, takes more from taxpayers to fuel the expansion of government, and commits our nation to a future of debt and decline.”
The clips are so good exactly because they are so revealing of the Obama anti-capitalist mindset.
My only question is if somebody wrote these statements for him on a teleprompter or if he came up with them on his own.
Rush didn’t grasp that “desert” as used in this paper is a technical term derived from “deserve” — as in “one’s just deserts”—what one justly deserves. It’s pronounced the same as dessert but means something different. Does not mean a dry arid place.
The verbose college student paper actually was comprehensible and makes sense. It could be summarized as arguing against free will.
The student makes a valid point: Obama and his ilk don’t believe in free will. Marxists don’t. They believe that class makes you do it. They believe we are created by forces around us: class,race etc. The people who are denying a proper recognition to entrepreneurs and risk-takers do so because at bottom they are determinists (soft or hard) who don’t believe in free will.
Had Rush grasped this, he could have “taught” this piece to his audience: defending enterpreneurs’ right to a just reward (desert) for their risk-taking, ingenuity etc. is one and the same as defending freedom itself. Those who deny the value of free enterprise, small business, private property and say that the state really, in some sense, “owns” it all because the “state” builds roads and runs schools
all of our opponents, when push comes to shove,
deny
free
will.
So when we defend the just “desert” of a business owner who built his business it is at the same time a defense of freedom and free will against behaviorists and determinists of various sorts who believe that we are just cogs in the great Society Machine.
I found the arguments made by this student not so much incomprehensible as incoherent. I’m left wondering how he arrives at “justice” as an axiomatic ideal, given his abandonment of so many others.
His arguments about the deterministic nature of decision making seem to be at odds with observed non-deterministic behaviors in the physical world, in chaotic systems and systems influenced by quantum theory. Has he found empirical demonstrations that the human brain is uninfluenced by these factors, and that moral decisions are driven exclusively by deterministic biochemical processes?
“The president’s budget gives more power to bureaucrats, takes more from taxpayers to fuel the expansion of government, and commits our nation to a future of debt and decline.”
