A sobering and poignant video posted at Liberty Papers:
Why? because government, at its heart, is an organization that uses force to get its way. It is incapable of limiting its violence to socially beneficial causes like apprehending murderers. At some point, it points a gun at a group of people and demands they submit, and anyone who refuses gets a bullet.
This is government. Over there or over here, it is the same; the few exploit the many, and they are ready to use beatings, kidnappings and murder to get their way.
America needs to wake up to this sad truth.
So the GM recovery plan apparently involves selling the company to the U.S. government.
That should work out well.
Great line on this latest outrage:
What I want to know is, if the union is going to own Chrysler, and the government owns GM, who will the workers threaten to strike against?
One of the many complaints about George W. Bush is that he was in the pockets of big business and the charges of corporatism and fascism were never ending. Why is it that no one makes the same accusations of President Obama? If the Bush administration’s relationship with business was incestuous, then Obama’s would be more akin to date rape. The administration has lavished banks and car companies with taxpayer bailouts and when the companies didn’t put out to Obama’s liking he screwed them. He has melded business and government together beyond anything in Ralph Nader’s worst nightmare. The federal government now controls banks and car manufacturers, but that doesn’t seem to bother those who didn’t blink at comparing Bush to Hitler. The reason, of course, is that the government now controls business, instead of the other way around, right? Surely, it is better to have our benevolent elected representative calling the shots than greedy captains of capitalistic exploitation. The problem is the union of government power and business and it matters not who is directing who. The result is diminished choices, less freedom, and widespread corruption.
