The Wall Street Journal reports in an article Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement that communities across the USA are allowing paved roads to fall back into gravel paths – our once great nation is beginning the slide into the dystopian state that Ayn Rand predicted in her novel, Atlas Shrugged
a sampling of the article -
Paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue. State money for local roads was cut in many places amid budget shortfalls.
In Michigan, at least 38 of the 83 counties have converted some asphalt roads to gravel in recent years. Last year, South Dakota turned at least 100 miles of asphalt road surfaces to gravel. Counties in Alabama and Pennsylvania have begun downgrading asphalt roads to cheaper chip-and-seal road, also known as “poor man’s pavement.” Some counties in Ohio are simply letting roads erode to gravel.
Read is all here and then ask – Who is John Gault?
Today, President Obama, our Dear Leader, has declared that health care is a moral obligation. He held a conference call with 1000 rabbis, and after telling them he’d love to hold more calls like this to talk about Israel (because he’s such a big fan don’tcha know!) he then pressed them to lead the charge in the moral obligation of health care coverage.
President Obama sought Wednesday to reframe the health care debate as “a core ethical and moral obligation,” imploring a coalition of religious leaders to help promote the plan to lower costs and expand insurance coverage for all Americans.
“I know there’s been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are frankly bearing false witness,” Mr. Obama told a multidenominational group of pastors, rabbis and other religious leaders who support his goal to remake the nation’s health care system.
“These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation: that is that we look out for one another, that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper. In the wealthiest nation on earth right now, we are neglecting to live up to that call,” Obama said.
We are God’s partners in matters of life and death,” Obama said during the call with Jewish leaders, according to a post on Twitter by Washington-area Rabbi Jack Moline.
I’m not even sure what to make of that super creepy last quote – maybe Ezekiel Emanuel and his DEATH CHART can add some more clarity?
Folks -we are truly living in the world of Atlas Shrugged -as John Galt said in his radio speech:
And then there’s your ‘brother-love’ morality. Why is it moral to serve others, but not yourself? If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but not by you? Why is it immoral to produce something of value and keep it for yourself, when it is moral for others who haven’t earned it to accept it? If it’s virtuous to give, isn’t it then selfish to take?
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
We must take the same oath that John Galt did – before it is too late…
Watch this video – we are living Ayn Rand’s frightening future-world of Atlas Shrugged! Wake your friends and neighbors before it’s too late!
A glimpse into the future of Government controlled markets – they exist at the point of the Government’s Gun – companies must obey – and the Producers have their lifeblood sucked out by the Looters. From Atlas Shrugged:
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another–their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun. “ (Full text of this portion of the book can be seen HERE)
“Price control may deliver some short-term benefits but the long-term negative consequences, not only on the pharmaceutical industry but in other industries, must be considered,” Reiner Gloor, an industry spokesman, said in a statement.
“If price adjustments do not result in market expansion, then affected companies will have to study options to remain viable.”
The pharmaceutical industry is estimated to lose about 7-10 billion pesos ($146-$208 million) a year in sales, making it hard for smaller drug firms that produce and market three or four products to survive, Gloor said previously.
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