Comments on: In Defense of Political Anger http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:21:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tanstaafl http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410446 tanstaafl Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:21:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410446 Seeing the Empire State Bldg. all lit up in crazy red & yellow to honor 60 years since that paragon of enlightened virtue, Mao Tse-Tung, spit all over the planet... I've had a Michelle Obama moment... <a href="http://www.theweek.com/cartoons/index/101012/Empire_State_Building_to_honor_Chinas_communist_anniversary" rel="nofollow">For the first time, I'm proud of my country</a> Seeing the Empire State Bldg. all lit up in crazy red & yellow to honor 60 years since that paragon of enlightened virtue, Mao Tse-Tung, spit all over the planet… I’ve had a Michelle Obama moment…

For the first time, I’m proud of my country

]]> By: venividivici http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410393 venividivici Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:04:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410393 <i>Money indeed is a medium of exchange – and as such it is an indispensable tool in our global economy – but the love of money for its own sake inevitably brings disaster.</i> There's nothing "inevitable" about the love of money bringing disaster, at least not in the real world. In fact, capitalism, by channeling even the basest of impulses into something productive, can make even the love of money into something quite useful, like a product or service. And, with the rule of law that accompanies capitalism, the "wages of sin" go down, at least on a risk-adjusted basis (i.e. what you could get away with in terms of law-breaking is less under capitalism in a stable society than in "the olden days" when all of these maxims were first uttered). I'm not an advocate of "love of money" but neither do I consider it my business if that's how someone chooses to live and their relationship to money. Money indeed is a medium of exchange – and as such it is an indispensable tool in our global economy – but the love of money for its own sake inevitably brings disaster.

There’s nothing “inevitable” about the love of money bringing disaster, at least not in the real world.

In fact, capitalism, by channeling even the basest of impulses into something productive, can make even the love of money into something quite useful, like a product or service. And, with the rule of law that accompanies capitalism, the “wages of sin” go down, at least on a risk-adjusted basis (i.e. what you could get away with in terms of law-breaking is less under capitalism in a stable society than in “the olden days” when all of these maxims were first uttered). I’m not an advocate of “love of money” but neither do I consider it my business if that’s how someone chooses to live and their relationship to money.

]]> By: AThinkingPerson http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410266 AThinkingPerson Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:44:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410266 Now and Then: Oh come on. You're responses are getting shrill now. You've lost that edgy liberal Holocaust slant I was enjoying. Do you always flame out at the end? Now and Then: Oh come on. You’re responses are getting shrill now. You’ve lost that edgy liberal Holocaust slant I was enjoying. Do you always flame out at the end?

]]> By: Warren Bonesteel http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410258 Warren Bonesteel Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:37:04 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410258 86. David S: That's pretty much the entire point of "Atlas Shrugged." You cannot forcibly take money and thus, expertise, from someone who has earned the fruits of his labor ...and give it to someone who is incompetent, corrupt or lazy and expect good things to happen. Which is what is happening wrt to pretty much everything in America these days. "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802 86. David S:

That’s pretty much the entire point of “Atlas Shrugged.”

You cannot forcibly take money and thus, expertise, from someone who has earned the fruits of his labor …and give it to someone who is incompetent, corrupt or lazy and expect good things to happen.

Which is what is happening wrt to pretty much everything in America these days.

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
-Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802

]]> By: Now and Then http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410253 Now and Then Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:31:30 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410253 88. AThinkingPerson: Strike three! You're out! 88. AThinkingPerson:

Strike three! You’re out!

]]> By: AThinkingPerson http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410247 AThinkingPerson Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:20:36 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410247 Now and Then: You didn't disappoint! Thanks for starting off my day on a great note friend. The continued meltdown is enjoyable at best but having a personal window into it here watching you flail about is quite the coup for me. I'll say it again...MORE! Why not regale us more about how the health care debate is like the Holocaust? I so enjoy that liberal angle. Very entertaining indeed! I'll get more coffee and await your next tap dance.... Now and Then: You didn’t disappoint! Thanks for starting off my day on a great note friend. The continued meltdown is enjoyable at best but having a personal window into it here watching you flail about is quite the coup for me.

I’ll say it again…MORE! Why not regale us more about how the health care debate is like the Holocaust? I so enjoy that liberal angle. Very entertaining indeed! I’ll get more coffee and await your next tap dance….

]]> By: Now and Then http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410222 Now and Then Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:52:05 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410222 85. AThinkingPerson: Wow, powerful argument. And so entertaining! Scared of the fastball. Confused by the curveball. How about you go back to the dugout and send somebody up who's not afraid to take a swing. 85. AThinkingPerson:

Wow, powerful argument. And so entertaining! Scared of the fastball. Confused by the curveball. How about you go back to the dugout and send somebody up who’s not afraid to take a swing.

]]> By: David S http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410217 David S Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:42:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410217 <b>@84. Warren Bonesteel:</b> Thanks for pointing out the basic error of objectivist economic philosophy. It is <i>not money</i> that is the root of all evil. It is the <i>love of money</i> that is the root of all evil. Money indeed is a medium of exchange - and as such it is an indispensable tool in our global economy - but the love of money for its own sake inevitably brings disaster. Thanks for the opportunity to clear that up. Peace. DS @84. Warren Bonesteel:

Thanks for pointing out the basic error of objectivist economic philosophy. It is not money that is the root of all evil. It is the love of money that is the root of all evil.

Money indeed is a medium of exchange – and as such it is an indispensable tool in our global economy – but the love of money for its own sake inevitably brings disaster.

Thanks for the opportunity to clear that up.

Peace.

DS

]]> By: AThinkingPerson http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-410184 AThinkingPerson Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:00:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-410184 Now and Then: I love being a witness to a liberal meltdown. Keep it coming! Nothing like a liberal health care/Holocaust comparison to start the day off right! The smell of desperation is positively intoxicating! More Now and Then. Definitely MORE (with a few Pelosi crocodile tears if at all possible)!! Now and Then: I love being a witness to a liberal meltdown. Keep it coming! Nothing like a liberal health care/Holocaust comparison to start the day off right!

The smell of desperation is positively intoxicating! More Now and Then. Definitely MORE (with a few Pelosi crocodile tears if at all possible)!!

]]> By: Warren Bonesteel http://pjmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-political-anger/#comment-409994 Warren Bonesteel Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:32:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68236#comment-409994 "So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? - Francisco d'Anconia "Atlas Shrugged" 1957, by Ayn Rand “So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?
- Francisco d’Anconia
“Atlas Shrugged” 1957,
by Ayn Rand

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