[elpinta]

Well put, likely to miss the mark for those that look to the gooberment to solve the problems they got into though...

[GOP Poet]

The initial fact of the matter is that those of us conisdered right-of-center, whether we be Conservatives or Libertarians or what have you, establish for ourselves a personal moral code of ethics by which we live our lives. Wherever we may disagree on social issues, we are 100% in lockstep on one very clean and simple idea: whosoever perfoms a task of value shall be compensated for it fairly for what the market will bear, and that compensation rightly belongs to him.

Yes.

[B-Chan]

Sure, Paul, whatever. Love the brave words. Please get back to us the day you decide to “go Galt” and quit paying your income and property taxes. I want to be there when the Party Van comes by to drag you off to Club Fed.

Armchair Atlas.

[smokingfrog]

*shrug*

[joesjane]

Ah the magic words...it’s the principle. This is what the looters don’t understand because they have none.

I have had a nagging feeling for quite a while, it started out as the occasional frustration with an irrational policy but then less and less I could hardly bare to turn on the news or pick up the paper. I have finally realized what it is, resignation. I am tired. Tired of beating my head against the wall to instill initiative in people who will never feel compelled to work in order to earn what they have. Tired of trying instill honor and integrity in people who only care about themselves, taking from others out of some sense of entitlement. I finally get it, they have nothing to offer me. I don’t care about them, I don’t care what they want, I don’t care what they need, I owe them nothing, I have no responsibility to them. I will do everything in my power to starve the beast including reduction of earnings and reduced consumption.

The left thinks this is irrational. They think I am stupid because I will reduce the amount of money coming into my household. Again IT’S THE PRINCIPLE! I will feel better knowing in some small way I am taking back some control! I will never submit to their will.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

So they capitalize “Achiever”? A true achiever is anybody who does honest work whether they be an entrepreneur, physician, fast food worker or garbage man. The fictional Galt’s Gulch wouldn’t work too well without anybody to pick up the trash or keep the sewers working. This “we don’t need you” nonsense is good for silly high school students and fantasy for the frustrated, but unless you want to rough it like Daniel Boone, the real world is a world of interdependence. Informed political citizenship and the repairing work of the free market over time will do more to set things right than dreams of a ridiculous novel written by an arrogant militant atheist.