tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682273669463402365.post2702628408179139642..comments2019-09-02T13:33:32.849-06:00Comments on Common Sense with Kenny Kemp: Avoiding Doomsday: Atlas Must ShrugUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682273669463402365.post-57444019583633573412009-08-25T14:22:59.897-06:002009-08-25T14:22:59.897-06:00I am also a fan of Ayn Rand. I don't agree wit...I am also a fan of Ayn Rand. I don't agree with every one if her tenets, but I think she saw the direction the US government in general and people in particular were headed as clearly and easily as my generation assumes that clean running water, TVs and windows are common necessities.<br /><br />I thought it interesting that you brought up Obama’s promise to disallow charitable tax deductions. I also wouldn’t be unhappy. Sadly, you are very perceptive in that it will lead to more government intervention in the form of “charitable” social institutions. Your comments reminded me of a page from Henry Grady Weaver’s book “The Mainspring of Human Progress”:<br /><br /><i>“She </i>(Isabel Paterson from her book ‘The God of the Machine’)<i> points out that most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. ‘It is at this point,’ she says, ‘that the humanitarian sets up the guillotine.’… As Miss Paterson observes, the harm done by ordinary criminals… is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional ‘do-gooders,’ who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others – with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.” </i> (p. 40)<br /><br />Who is James Taggart?Jameehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647980714112993199noreply@blogger.com