"A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences..." - Ayn Rand

Posted by GaltsGulch 8 years, 5 months ago to Pics
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"A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. A bureaucrat forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not ... If he makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you, in the form of heavier taxes." - Ayn Rand


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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In this case, with the special court and unparalleled liability protection, I'm talking about the Feds. The removal of the right to a free, public education is mostly limited to California. However, there is a parallel effort in multiple states now. It was killed in Oregon.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    People need to start recognizing tyranny when it occurs. They are not, in general.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    hardly and he got away with iot after ripping off social security money ha ha before it went to the general fund anyway and the same with the RR Retirement Trust Fund which is likewise raided by Congress. Nothing there folks...just IOU's or more precisely you owe the retirees and the railway employees who already paid for it once. You get to pay for it twice.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When lawmakers here openly spoke in committee hearings of taking people's children "if we believe the child is in danger" I took notice. Not a peep on the news coverage... No due process. No liability. No rights...Take all of the product or else risk losing your kids.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am too busy to give details, but will try to later. To answer your question: vaccines. Specifically, childhood vaccines are mandated. The manufacturers of all vaccines are given total liability immunity thanks to two different Federal laws. Rights are removed if you don't take the product. Here in California a law was passed to take away the right to a free public education for lack of compliance (compliance means about 40 vaccines now, a schedule that has rapidly expanded from one vaccine since the granting of liability release - and is expected to grow to close to triple digits) and in committee it was discussed and acknowledged that children may be taken away from their parents by CPS for lack of total compliance.

    I will get into the special legal structure the government has built to deflect all liability from the manufacturers later. You can look up "vaccine court" and probably find some of it. Think where there's smoke there's no fire? So far, the Federal government has awarded over $3B to families damaged by vaccines, and this is after rejecting almost all of the claims. In the settled cases, the parents are often doctors and (this is important) the cases are settled WITHOUT A HEARING.

    Oh yes, my friends...oh yessss....
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  • Posted by $ sjatkins 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is not the action of business but of a fascist incestuous government/business hybrid creature.
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  • Posted by edweaver 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hmmm. Health insurance was easy and for the life of me I cannot think of anything else other than the fact we are forced to pay for a government that does not work and we cannot sue them. You're going to need to tell me. :)
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. And, you can sue an insurance company. I'm talking about an industry that is so favored by the government that you are forced to get their product AND you cannot sue them. Ever.

    Health insurance is a great guess. It is the first time in my life I remember having the citizens ordered to pay a "tax" directly to corporations.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So far I've run into one businessman other who gets it and that was Allison of BB@T. The government forced him out as a punishment for success. I used to think that would be the only bank worth having accounts in....but I'd have to check my premises again and do a continuing objective evaluation in his absence. Given his continued success in changing the mindset in academic economic circles it's a damn shame he isn't running for office but as usual the best don't are loathe to participate in a dirty business they are to busy being successful. His record was 30,000 employees paid above industry standard for banking and every one an objectivist that for once really did give a damn about the clients.
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  • Posted by Solver 8 years, 5 months ago
    Depends on how you define, "businessman"?

    “I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman. Blood is a big expense.”

    "Don Corleone, I need a man who has powerful friends. I need a million dollars in cash. I need, Don Corleone those politicians you carry in your pocket, like so many nickels and dimes."
    ―Virgil Sollozzo, of The Godfather
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 5 months ago
    There is one major contradiction to the first part of this in America today. Anybody want to guess which industry/product? Anybody?... It's actually a very interesting business/government arrangement I'm thinking of. Almost nobody can guess, I bet. There is a product you are forced to buy (by the government) from a private entity that has been granted total legal immunity for any and all damages. Oh yes, my friends... The government has handed out billions of taxpayer dollars in damages for the private entity so that they don't have to. Ohhhh yessss.....
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 5 months ago
    Unless he is a large bank. Then he tells his puppet, the Secretary of the Treasury, to have the taxpayers bail him out and pay him a hundred million in bonuses for his failures.
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