That would let the market correct itself. Bloated, inefficient auto companies would fail, bloated, inefficient banks would fail, idiotic mortgage brokers would go under, and that would just leave space for those the companies who have a brain and actually understand what a cost benefit analysis is, and how it applies to business.

Actually they’re “going Wesley Mouch.”

Or “going Thompson?”
Beats “going Ferris”–at least for now.

Here’s the best way to “Go Galt”:

http://business.clemson.edu/BBTCENTER/cci/2009con/2009con.html

And, Biden is the perfect pick because Obama has the inspiration and Biden has the experience. And then Biden opened his mouth . . . . but the MSM didn’t pay attention. After the election, we learned that Biden would hold a “traditional” position as VP — a placeholder and not much more.

If we don’t pass this Stimulus bill, the sky will fall, but it will take at least two years for the bill to work.

Obama knows how to balance the budget, but he won’t be able to do that for at least the next three years.

Which ones did I miss?

I’ll give it a shot. Here’s a straight up quote:

“The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.”

Or here’s one I’ve modified:

“All banks are equal but some financial institutions are simply are more equal than others.”

The latter needs to be requoted often, as it’s simply too big to fail.

However, the 10 million more children that will be placed on government healthcare because of the recent expansion of the SCHIP Bill (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) are supposed to be covered by this new tobacco tax. EXCUSE ME…it is estimated that millions of new smokers are needed to be encouraged to consume tobacco now to pay for that SCHIP program. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose if more and more people will use National Health Care as adults to support the children’s program?

Then we need to tax McDonald’s consumption to pay for the smokers, and encourage more people to eat at McDonalds. But then who is going to pay for the ‘fat’ diseases like cardiac arrest and diabetes? Now where do we go and who do we tax to pay for the ‘fat’ consumers?

There is that vicious circle again! Are you sure “Animal Farm” isn’t mixed up in this too?

Thanks for noting my intention of tying the current Randian theme to George Orwell. The way I figger it (Obama insiders don’t confer with me), the White House is up to one of two things:

1) They were caught off guard with respect to the recent “Going Galt” theme and are currently a bit rattled by folks who are using consistent, logical arguments against them.

2) This is a trial balloon for a more nefarious plan to seize control of the Randian-type arguments.

Either way, the small-government side is served, in my opinion, by bringing these coincidences to the light of day.

For example, Obama passed a law less than a week ago “for the good of science and politics” to lit the ban on government money being used for stem cell research. However with the signing of the budget bill he has reversed that law because the budget bill included a stipulation that no government money will be used for those purposes.

Obama is constantly contradicting himself and expecting us to accept it. For example, he campaigned that he would ban ALL earmarks. Recently he said that some earmakrs are good and usefull and that he has ALWAYS supported their use.

Essentially. . . . our President is a practicing liar.

My fear is that the Democrats are going to try to sound sympathetic towards believers in small government while doing the precise opposite.

They’ll be using yet another foundation well laid by the Bush administration.

However, “Going Galt,” as in doing what the gov’t did in Atlas Shrugged? Yeah, I can see that happening.

Not under Bush, he didn’t “care about us” enough, though he certianly laid the groundwork. Obama, however does “feel our pain” enough to take actions “for the greater good.”