Human civilization is now more than 10 thousand years old. Human society is not a machine that does or does not "work." It EVOLVES organically like everything else in the natural world. It is not FIXED for all time. How did we ever cope before capitalism and private property?
Science and technical skill are not anybody's PRIVATE PROPERTY. Things can be produced in abundance-but RATIONAL abundance- under socialism. Full employment is quite possible-even more probable-without the profit motive. It is capitalism that wastes human potential.
The present government must attend to a decaying infrastructure. But it takes TAXES to do that. Not paying taxes seems the sacred obligation of the Ayn Rand billionaires -who should pay the most taxes. Yes, they love their country as much as I do. But they don't want to give it anything. Let the working stiffs pay taxes and offer their children as sacrificial lambs to the military-industrial complex.
The Ayn Rand cranks have no problem with the military budget and now ENCOURAGE a nuclear attack on Iran. No problem with BIG GOVERNMENT here as long as it is used to oppress and kill the insignificant hordes of ordinary people not celebrated in "Atlas Shrugged" the novel and "Atlas Shrugged II" the movie.
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