Posted on 03/31/2009 7:42:56 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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The bad news is that the Obama White House is now clearly deep into industrial policy by forcing out General Motors chief Rick Wagoner and most of his board. Mr. Wagoner, who joined GM in 1977, agreed to leave as one of the White House's conditions for more federal aid. The moves give President Obama political cover as he contemplates just how much taxpayer money to pour into the auto industry.
But the moves also represent another step on the road to the dystopia that Ayn Rand depicted in her novel "Atlas Shrugged." Rand envisioned an America in which bureaucrats dictated terms to both management and labor as it allocated state favors. As Michael Vadum of the Capital Research Center notes, such state managerialism is a peculiarly foreign concept to America. He quotes the Italian dictator Mussolini as saying: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." That merger is now underway here, at least until Mr. Obama and his Democrats get through the next couple of elections with the help of a grateful UAW.
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The 2010 Obamobile and the all new Chosen One Coupe!
They come with a lifetime supply of pimp oil air freshener
Go ahead, put a bow on it. Those who have read history, and the intentions/wisdoms of our forefathers, we know full well what this is.
Finance Queen: “Jack, I know you’ve been with this Bank for a long time, but you used the end of the roll and didn’t bother to replace it. I was watching through my waist-high hole in the stall. You are through here, my friend!”
BTTT
During the first four years we have; weakened the military to a point of total ineffectiveness; opened our borders to criminals and terrorists of all stripes; introduced sharia law in all 57 states; abolished marriage; legalized infanticide up to 12 years of age; euthanized all individuals on their 50th birthday; created a worthless global currency and worthless global economics; outlawed all opposition; imprisoned opposition; and permanently removed opposition.
My wife and I will continue to reign as your supreme beings as we look towards our eventual surrender to islamic forces now controlling our cities. Do not concern yourself with your starvation or disease as we have are using this technique to rid our world of such undesirables. Our plan is working perfectly as we have destroyed all but a few remaining jobs thereby creating total chaos in our streets. Our communist schools are turning out ever more liberal progressive evil antagonists who will soon be ready to initiate our new destructive plans for the rest of you."
Your Lord God, Omnipotent Obama
“Rand envisioned an America in which bureaucrats dictated terms to both management and labor as it allocated state favors”
‘Friendly’ fascism?
Methinks Rand was on to something.
STE=Q
I see more Atlas Shrugged references every day.
“The Union of Locomotive Engineers was demanding that the maximum speed of all trains on the John Galt Line be reduced to sixty miles an hour. The Union of Railway
Conductors and Brakemen was demanding that the length of all freight trains on the John Galt Line be reduced to sixty cars.
The states of Wyoming,New Mexico,Utah ,and Arizona were demanding that the number of trains run in Colorado not exceed the number of trains run in each of these neighboring states.
A Group headed by Orren Boyle was demanding the passage of
a Preservation of Livelihood Law, which would limit the production of Reardon Metal to the amount of equal output
of any other steel mill of equal plant capacity.
A group headed by Mr. Mowen was demanding the passage of a
Fair Share Law to give every customer who wanted it an equal supply of Reardon Metal.
A group headed by Bertram Scudder was demanding the passage of a Public Stability Law, Forbidding Eastern business firms to move out of their states.
Wesley Mouch,Top Co-ordinator of the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources,was issuing a great many statements, the content and purpose of which could not be defined, except that the words “emergency powers” and
“unbalanced economy” kept appearing in the text every few lines.”
Atlas Shrugged
Our First Freeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Theme
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Chain
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Top and the Bottom
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Immovable Movers
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Climax of the d’Anconias
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Non-Commercial
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Exploiters and the Exploited
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The John Galt Line
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Sacred and the Profane
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, Wyatt’s Torch
FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Man Who Belonged on Earth
This car has made it all over the world, via my email, and hasn’t used one gallon of gas, nor laid more than a sparrow’s carbon footprint.
Gevernment Motors loves the design.
INstead of fins, it will have ‘curb ears’.
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