[Colonel Kangaroo]

If ol' Atlas is so shortsighted to think the grass is greener on the other side, we're better off if he takes his moving and shaking and search for slave labor elsewhere.

With all our ills, we're still the greatest and most free country in the world.

I don't put much stock in the pretentious fiction of a "philosopher" whose worldview was based on the "virtue of selfishness". Surely we can find a better argument for free markets than from that woman.

[I see my hands]

"pretentious fiction"

Which of her books have you read?

[Navy Patriot]

Well said, comrade!

[Revolting cat!]

pretentious fiction

It ain't no "pretentious fiction", Capt., it's a humourless, bombastic manifesto!

[I see my hands]

"If ol' Atlas is so shortsighted to think the grass is greener on the other side, we're better off if he takes his moving and shaking and search for slave labor elsewhere"

I don't know what you mean by slave labor in this context. I'm interested in what you have to say and I want to understand. Would you explain?

[griswold3]

“What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?”

James Madison.

even Madison understood capitalists

[higgmeister]

If ol' Atlas is so shortsighted to think the grass is greener on the other side, we're better off if he takes his moving and shaking and search for slave labor elsewhere.

Read the book before you make unfounded assumptions and irrational comments. If you cannot do that, go back to DU and DK where I am sure you are welcome.

[catfish1957]

Even outside the civil war threads, your leftist panties are showing.

Bottom line is those who are and have been working hard are tired of footing the bill of those slugs who wish not to. Which part of your liberal mind doesn't understand that?

[The Theophilus]

With all our ills, we're still the greatest and most free country in the world.

Not according to The Heritage Foundation the US is #9 and plummeting. Even The Daily [Ron] Paul website links to an index that places the at the lower side of the top 20 when looking at other metrics.

Ignorance about the world and arrogance about where you feel the united States ranks in comparison to other economies is part of the reason we will continue to keep the JATO pack to the bottom of the list lit.

[snowrip]

I don't put much stock in the pretentious fiction of a "philosopher" whose worldview was based on the "virtue of selfishness".

(eyeroll)

[ml/nj]

we're still the greatest and most free country in the world.

Really?

People in Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Hungary (former Soviet satellites) can play Poker on-line, but here in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, I cannot.

Why don't you light up a cigar and try to walk through Central Park in NYC, and see what happens to you.

And don't be a kid who hopes to play kickball at camp this summer.

ML/NJ

[Radix]

Have you ever even read the book?