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Post by Smithee on Jan 23, 2012 16:48:07 GMT 10
Imagine Big Business running riot, without anti-trust laws and without regulations.
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 23, 2012 19:41:54 GMT 10
Imagine Big Business running riot, without anti-trust laws and without regulations. I imagine the result would have to be worse than: ... the top 1% of Americans owning about 40% of the nation's wealth, while the bottom 80% of your fellow citizens own only about 7%.
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Post by maximus on Jan 24, 2012 0:56:43 GMT 10
Philip, there are many points where I part ways with Rand. Brandt is not, in the other thread, arguing Objectivism, but his personal opinion on individual liberty. I see no point in revisiting this thread which we have been done with for some time now. I am not an Objectivist, I will not be goaded into a position where I defend every utterance that Rand ever made. I studied it intensely for a period of time, and agree that unfettered capitalism is not doable. But neither is unrestrained socialism.
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 25, 2012 10:18:15 GMT 10
... unfettered capitalism is not doable. But neither is unrestrained socialism.
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Post by brandt on Jan 25, 2012 13:53:48 GMT 10
"Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" - Oliver W. Holmes
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Post by Smithee on Jan 25, 2012 19:59:01 GMT 10
I have build my organization upon fear
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone
Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in... We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling classAl CaponeChicago lowlife (Died this day 1947 - Good riddance) I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand
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Post by brandt on Jan 26, 2012 1:48:47 GMT 10
"Chicago lowlife" is a great tag line for him. He is a great example of the kind of thugs that float to the top when prohibition or prohibatory taxation are instituted. His kind exist in every nation. They existed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Repubics, in Somalia, in France, Italy, Australia, and every other nation under every economic system. They are thugs with no appreciation or respect for human life. Kind of like Bernie Madoff.
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Post by Smithee on Feb 2, 2012 18:48:52 GMT 10
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate Bertrand Russell, FRS(Died this day 1970)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 3, 2012 8:34:50 GMT 10
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities
(“That is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start” — Apu) [/size][/quote] (Only because you don't understand what she's trying to get across here.) [/quote] "You cannot truly appreciate Atlas Shrugged until you have read it in the original Klingon" - Sea Wasp <seawasp@wizvax.net>[/quote]
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 3, 2012 8:54:35 GMT 10
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