John Sowa wrote:
Anybody who has a small
business knows that the biggest enemy of small business is *not* the
government. It's big business. The regulations that hurt small
business were *not* written by government, they were written by lobbyists for
big business who want to stamp out the competition.
I (a small business owner for decades) disagree.
The government is every bit as involved in the corporate-government
partnership. The lobbyists are simply one part of that partnership, paid
by the large businesses to provide congressmen with excuses for their nefarious
actions, both legislation and regulation.
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 6:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Self
Interest Ontology
On 5/28/2012 8:30 AM, Mike Pool wrote:
> He also summarily lumps Hayek in the same
paragraph with __Rand__. That
> is also a surprise to me. Too bad the
article is so short. I would
> like to have understood his objection to Hayek as
well.
Chomsky's primary objection to them is the same as
anybody else in the
middle class: self interest.
Anybody who has a small business knows that the
biggest enemy of small
business is *not* the government. It's big
business. The regulations
that hurt small business were *not* written by
government, they were
written by lobbyists for big business who want to
stamp out the competition.
Don't think of Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany as
governments. They were
oligarchies run by big bussinesses that stamp out all
competition. Note
that they achieved the goal of all corporations --
give the stockholdera
as little information as possible about what
management is doing.
That's the primary blindness in Rand and Hayek -- also
Ron Paul, who
blindly admires both.
In comparison to Ron Paul, I am a *true*
Libertarian. I want freedom
from big corporations who stick their hand in my
wallet and my personal
life at every turn.
John
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