Triumph of Ayn Rand over Karl Marx

Lets keep in mind that, before GM took a bailout from Obama, they took one from Bush... something a lot of these articles tend to ignore.

 

A conservative anti-union group thinks that the bailout was a failure? Well I'm just shocked here..

 

Sure, blame it on the unions again. Ford doesn't hire UAW members? Look at the difference in management - there's your answer right there. Ford is on its way up, and GM is on its way out.

 

GM is doing ok, coming out with new products, they are ahead of Chrysler, not as good as Ford, but thats going to change, they, along with Chrysler, need to join the better gas mileage world sooner.

Overall I think it was a good investment for the country to bailout GM, not the one under GWB, who gave them no requirements to pay anything back though.

Thus the problem with conservative leadership, they want to give it all away to the corporations and wealthy, with no expectation of return.

 

I wonder what Ayn Rand would think of her legacy: a group of clowns running around in costumes with tea bags held high, while the Koch brothers laugh all the way to the bank.

Really, what political party has reached the same apex of a constituency: a group of pathetic, fearful, racist white trailer trash ?

 

What I love is that the collective anti-socialist crowd doesn't seem to have wrapped their heads around the fact that we in the US have a mixed-market economy with a heavy set of socialist components. This spans all the way from government subsidies for agriculture and defense (billions and billions of dollars every year) to the roads you drive on, fire & police protection, and sewer systems. I wonder if these people would be singing the same tune if, say, government gasoline subsidies were suddenly eliminated and gas skyrocketed to its real price of around $10 per gallon? That's just one small example of the nuances these people don't seem to understand, and it's shocking how people seem ready and willing to take a massive hit to their own bottom lines just to uphold some vacuous ideal that in effect doesn't exist in our country in the first place.

 

Why don't you tell us? Isn't IPA mixed with water for consumer purchase?

 

Ayn Rand's world view is just as ridiculous and utopian as marx's was. It's not supported by any data, it's just a flawed world view. Next....

 

That sound you heard going over your head wasn't an airplane.

 

General funds are already used to maintain "post roads". The gas tax alone hasn't been adequate for years.

 

Gasoline is a "social engineering mechanism" because of it's use!

Unless you are willing to do nothing but drive on 100% toll roads the money to pay for roads must come from somewhere. Fuel taxes are a user fee, and indeed, especially in the case of trucks, fuel taxes don't pay their costs.

Other examples of social engineering visa vi fuel taxes is mass transit. Even if you don't use mass transit, you a most probably benefit from it, from reduced fuels use over all, reduced air pollution, reduced traffic congestion, as a way fora people who can't afford cars to get to work to support the economy etc.

Understand, we don't live in a "free market economy" by any stretch! If we did, we would be paying (at the point of purchase) significantly more for much of what we buy, including energy, food, finished goods etc. There also wouldn't be a nuke plant to be seen!

Funny. How "free marketeers" change their tune when confronted with e reality of how our economy works.

Icarus

 

You just described Halliburton, Enron and Koch enterprises quite well.

It is really too bad you are too ignorant and ideological to learn. The intellectual grounding for libertarian economic and political philosophy centered to a large degree at the U of Chicago, and their influence reached a pinnacle through the gwb puppet. Ideologues yes, but far from stupid. So after witnessing the collapse of the financial system and the Iraq catastrophe most of them admitted they were either wrong or in retrospect did not have a clue. All that is left from that movement are the tea party clowns and those that manipulate them.