I can’t watch the news without feeling the need to be sick to my stomach. From our pathetic attempts to keep the world peace to the utter nonsense coming out of the mouths of our elected officials, I am often left wondering, “Who is John Galt.” While this character from Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged may not exist in real life– the legacy of the novel is even more relevant today. With sales of Atlas Shrugged reaching all-time-highs, I can only hope that enough people will come to their senses in time to stop Obama and the spend-drunk Congress.
I see Congress and the President falling all over themselves trying to spend money they don’t have– then using the “budget deficit” to justify TAX INCREASES. By the way, ever notice that Congress is EXEMPT from all the laws they pass? Funny how the lawmakers don’t want to live by the very laws they write– but that’s another issue for another time.
Today, it boils down to this. LEAVE ME ALONE. I don’t want the “help” of Congress. I want Congress to help assure that there is a competent Judiciary to adjudicate disputes and I want a decent President to be a statesman (no chance of either, but I can still dream/hope). Why do these people think it’s their business to interfere in my life? If I do not have health insurance, that’s my problem– no one else’s. LEAVE ME ALONE. Congress can only screw up the economy, not help it. It comes down to this: the economy is market driven (the invisible hand, a la Adam Smith) and Congress can either let it work properly or it can try to interfere– which never works for long and said invisible hand comes to smack us all HARD for allowing Congress to be STUPID.
I have unending reverence for the accomplishments of the Founding Fathers of our county, and I have continued respect for the U.S. Constitution, but I have zero respect for pretty much ANY elected official in office at this time. I realize that I may not know everyone, but I can say that the Republicans and the Democrats are both determined to “save the country by destroying it”, a la Lincoln (who I hate for his gross violations of the Constitution in the supposed name of saving said document).
One would assume SOMEONE has an idea what’s going on, but there are no viable third parties. Even the Libertarian Party is wrought with power-hungry morons who wouldn’t know principle-based action if it hit them on the head with a 5,000,000,000 ton brick. I am left politically homeless, with an insatiable desire to find someone running for public office in whom I can place my trust and admiration. I’ll keep hoping, but I’m realistic enough to not expect it any time soon.
I love the “ideal” of the United States, but am disgusted by the way that the dream has been wasted on petty, self-serving pragmatists with no morals and no principles. The funny part though is that I trust opportunists like Hillary Clinton more than most because she is predictable and pragmatic– so at least I know how she plans to screw the country in advance. The challenge is in dealing with the wild cards like Obama and the religious right. They are “hell-bent” (to borrow an expression) on destroying America for the sake of their bull-hockey idea of Paradise. Obama wants some never-never land of people who live like Kings without the necessity of work and the religious right wants a land of mindless zombies who cough up their cash to an charismatic televangelist.
Why won’t anyone accept the fact that I do not want their “help”? I just want to work with those who agree VOLUNTARILY to do so, and to reap the rewards (or losses) for my own choices and actions. Why is that so hard for elected officials to grasp? LEAVE US ALONE. WE’RE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF RUNNING OUR OWN LIVES.
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Enough, already! Leave me alone!
23 June 2009 — Eriks GoodwinI can’t watch the news without feeling the need to be sick to my stomach. From our pathetic attempts to keep the world peace to the utter nonsense coming out of the mouths of our elected officials, I am often left wondering, “Who is John Galt.” While this character from Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged may not exist in real life– the legacy of the novel is even more relevant today. With sales of Atlas Shrugged reaching all-time-highs, I can only hope that enough people will come to their senses in time to stop Obama and the spend-drunk Congress.
I see Congress and the President falling all over themselves trying to spend money they don’t have– then using the “budget deficit” to justify TAX INCREASES. By the way, ever notice that Congress is EXEMPT from all the laws they pass? Funny how the lawmakers don’t want to live by the very laws they write– but that’s another issue for another time.
Today, it boils down to this. LEAVE ME ALONE. I don’t want the “help” of Congress. I want Congress to help assure that there is a competent Judiciary to adjudicate disputes and I want a decent President to be a statesman (no chance of either, but I can still dream/hope). Why do these people think it’s their business to interfere in my life? If I do not have health insurance, that’s my problem– no one else’s. LEAVE ME ALONE. Congress can only screw up the economy, not help it. It comes down to this: the economy is market driven (the invisible hand, a la Adam Smith) and Congress can either let it work properly or it can try to interfere– which never works for long and said invisible hand comes to smack us all HARD for allowing Congress to be STUPID.
I have unending reverence for the accomplishments of the Founding Fathers of our county, and I have continued respect for the U.S. Constitution, but I have zero respect for pretty much ANY elected official in office at this time. I realize that I may not know everyone, but I can say that the Republicans and the Democrats are both determined to “save the country by destroying it”, a la Lincoln (who I hate for his gross violations of the Constitution in the supposed name of saving said document).
One would assume SOMEONE has an idea what’s going on, but there are no viable third parties. Even the Libertarian Party is wrought with power-hungry morons who wouldn’t know principle-based action if it hit them on the head with a 5,000,000,000 ton brick. I am left politically homeless, with an insatiable desire to find someone running for public office in whom I can place my trust and admiration. I’ll keep hoping, but I’m realistic enough to not expect it any time soon.
I love the “ideal” of the United States, but am disgusted by the way that the dream has been wasted on petty, self-serving pragmatists with no morals and no principles. The funny part though is that I trust opportunists like Hillary Clinton more than most because she is predictable and pragmatic– so at least I know how she plans to screw the country in advance. The challenge is in dealing with the wild cards like Obama and the religious right. They are “hell-bent” (to borrow an expression) on destroying America for the sake of their bull-hockey idea of Paradise. Obama wants some never-never land of people who live like Kings without the necessity of work and the religious right wants a land of mindless zombies who cough up their cash to an charismatic televangelist.
Why won’t anyone accept the fact that I do not want their “help”? I just want to work with those who agree VOLUNTARILY to do so, and to reap the rewards (or losses) for my own choices and actions. Why is that so hard for elected officials to grasp? LEAVE US ALONE. WE’RE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF RUNNING OUR OWN LIVES.