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| 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years; hat tip to GeorgeK. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 9 2009, 10:30 PM (203 Views) | |
| Mark | Jan 9 2009, 10:30 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html What an excellent article. So true. |
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| Mark | Jan 9 2009, 10:34 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 10 2009, 05:04 AM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Rings true, does it not? |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| QuantumIvory | Jan 10 2009, 06:50 AM Post #4 |
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Senior Carp
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But isn't that exactly what the "levelers" want? |
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"I regard consciousness as fundamental. We cannot get behind consciousness." -Max Planck | |
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| Mark | Jan 10 2009, 08:18 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It what liberals and socialists want. And guess who has been in charge of this country for more years than I have been alive? |
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| Axtremus | Jan 10 2009, 01:10 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The American people have been in charge of this country. The American people get exactly the sort of government they collectively voted for all these years. |
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| Axtremus | Jan 10 2009, 01:17 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The novel is simple-minded. Ayn Rand had no concept of public health hazard and tragedy of the common. |
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| Mark | Jan 10 2009, 01:21 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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What? How can you say that? She lived in and escaped from one of the most repressive totalitarian, communist regimes that ever existed. If memory serves, the communists have the worst environmental record to date. |
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| Axtremus | Jan 10 2009, 06:51 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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To the extent that one can graduate from college and still be ignorant, one can certainly escape from "one of the most repressive totalitarian, communist regimes that ever existed" and still have no concept of public health hazard and tragedy of the common. In the "Atlas Shrugged" ideal world, something like the CDC would never exist, there would be no publicly mandated vaccination program -- without which you cannot control serious communicable diseases. Entity like the FCC would also not exist, and no one would regulate, for example, the use of the airwave, without which orderly broadcasting and wireless communications services would be impossible. No one would regulate fishing rights or deforestation or maintain the aquifers, or regulate dumping of wastes into streams and rivers. The telephone, telegraph, and radio revolution of the 1920's and the Internet revolution of the 1990's would not have come to be because there would be no ANSI and no ITU to ratify standards that allow the underlying infrastructure to be built, and it's doubtful that something like IETF would get funded. |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 11 2009, 12:09 AM Post #10 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Ax: Are you suggesting that the way things have developed to address certain issues is the only way they could have developed???? There are other models such as distributivism and classical liberalism that can ensure the public and common goods of society while safeguarding the rights of the individual. Facile thought models such as the tragedy of the commons or the free rider problem do not adequately justify collectivistic solutions except by those who are a priori looking to justify collectivism. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Moonbat | Jan 11 2009, 04:32 AM Post #11 |
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Pisa-Carp
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| Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem | |
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| Mark | Jan 11 2009, 10:17 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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How the hell do you extrapolate that the CDC would not exist? The CDC is something all should support in that they provide for the defense of the country from enemies both foreign and domestic. Now, could the CDC be streamlined and made to work even better than it does right now? You bet you a$$ it could. And yes, forcing someone to take any pharmaceutical is wrong. The FCC can go to hell as far as I am concerned along with a whole lot more government agencies that simply have no constitutional authority to exist in the first place. |
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