I don’t doubt that you disfavor any form of redistribution, however it seemed that your document focused on only one side.

And hopefully unlike Romania, the aftermath won’t just be a slightly different state/EU-controlled nation.

In this document, I also criticized Bush for his role in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fiasco.

greed may or may not be a virtue, especially in un-healthy doses (and depending on one’s definition of greed), but the notion that greed is virtuous as a means to the end of realizing genuine liberty is a notion i believe Ayn Rand leaves us with, at least in part, from her works of fiction, albeit highly idealized and romanticized as are Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.

the fact that a thing is dangerous in high doses and according to a certain form/definition does not rule out the possibility that a thing is good nonetheless.

that being said, doesn’t greed in the “wall street” sense of the term lead to plenty happiness and devestation at the same time?

@Steven Gordon:

one of the best post to come across the wire here in a long time!

Your compassionate libertarianism – like the tea party – highlights some of the tyrants and their evils and ignores others. Why do you ignore the fact that Wall Street contributed a great deal to the economic collapse, and yet they were the biggest recipients of big government’s handouts? And now they have returned to profitability, credit is flowing and yet they are not hiring. They have the power to end this recession, and they choose not to. Why? Because they are greedy. How can you give the selfishness and stupidity of Wall Street a free pass, while pointing out the same failures in our government?

Wall Street and Washington are two heads of the same hydra. Until our movements start recognizing this, there will be no progress.