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Determinism, Government, and Social Justice"Dictatorship and determinism," wrote Ayn Rand, "are reciprocally reinforcingcorollaries: if one seeks to enslave men, one has to destroy their reliance on thevalidity of their own judgments and choices—if one believes that reason andvolition are impotent, one has to accept the rule of force.“Representation Without Authorization,” The Ayn Rand Letter, I, 21, 1Today, we see the spectacle of a federal government nearing totalitarian powerover society. It seeks to re-create the nation in its own image--green, "sociallyjust", ignoring the power of the individual and his right, both Constitutional andnatural, to empower his own will; and it is doing so by giving us cause torelinquish our reliance on the validity of our own judgments and choices.It is telling us that General Motors and Chrysler no longer know how to managetheir own companies, because in a world where they naturally lost their share ofthe market to competition, they also lost money when a disaster struck the economyafter government interference in that economy.Of course, the government has interfered in the capitalist economy almost from thebeginning of our nation's founding. But once it became large enough to be a realforce, then the concept of capitalism was replaced by the concept of the "mixed"economy. But no one calls it that.They still call it capitalism, and so when this mixed economy fails because thecapitalists have lost control over their own capital, lost it to bureaucrats whowere not seeking to protect capital but rather to protect special interests fromthe capitalists, then the bureaucrats could claim the capitalists were incompetentof maintaining a healthy economy. It isn't "socially just" to allow a fewincompetent money mongers to destroy everything for everyone.The real capitalists knew better, but the majority of people alive today believethat the government has proved "capitalism" is the special interest who must beshackled and told how to manage its own affairs; when the fact is, it has beenshackled for so long it no longer knows how to do what it is supposed to do.It is supposed to say no to government interference, relying on the validity ofits own choices based on objective market values. No such values can exist when amixed economy by definition is subjective.And since the government can now make the claim that "health care" is inefficientand have that backed up by the health care industry climbing naked into bed withit, "the people" are beginning to believe that reason is impotent---when it is notgoverned.When a new piece of electronics hits the market, it is always expensive at first.Look at the price of the IPhone, which now has dropped by more than 60%. The firstreal laptop computer for under $200 is being advertised heavily on TV by a majorwireless internet carrier who sells that laptop.So when a new piece of medical equipment, or new medicines, hit the market, theyare always expensive. The difference is, there are not hundreds of thousands ofhospitals rushing out to buy the new equipment, and the meds are not immediatelyprescribed to millions of people, so there is no reason for the price to comedown.Yet, everyone who gets sick and can be helped by the new equipment want it used onthem, and they then complain about the cost of health care, and they equate it
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