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That "Oh, it's Atlas Shrugged" Feeling

Posted by $ Abaco 10 years, 4 months ago to News
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Has it always been this way? I can't imagine it has. As I see stories of the water in Flint, the massive gas leak in SoCal, the water contamination in Sacramento, the Navy boat that breaks down and gets captured by the Iranians, etc...I find that I just say, "Oh yeah, right out of Atlas Shrugged." When I actually study the details of some of these follies (in my engineering work) I see a commonality. There's always just a long line of errors building up to the disaster. I look at it and think, "How can there have been nobody who said, 'Hey...wait a minute.'" Then, often it's that there is a total abandonment of engineering principles. That troubles me a lot. So many of these things are not complicated to prevent. Our society is going through a very strange phase where engineering is ignored, citizens put in harms way by bureaucrats who don't seem to really care. The head water guy here in Sacramento was asked on the news, basically, "Why did you let poison water flow out to the population for so long?" With a perfectly straight face he says, "To save money." But, it actually cost more to poison the water, vs. the previous method.

WTH is going on?

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  • Posted by Lucky 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    " Only when the true villains that committed 9/11 .."
    T'was I.

    It was me, I am a white (sometimes), male of a certain age.
    Everything bad is due to my cohort.
    I burn the coal, enslave women and LBGTs etc, and own shares in banking and beer companies.
    It is nothing to do with Islam.

    On top of all that I use the lowest form of wit (sarcasm).
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Assuming they are the same villains guilty of other atrocities against liberty. I do agree that will be a first step of many needed to regain individual liberty and free markets.
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  • Posted by KCLiberty 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It won't matter who wins. Both parties are corporatist (fascist) banksters whores and slaves to the military industrial complex. Every President for the last 25 years has killed millions of brown people in the middle East, constricted freedom at home, grows government, and put us further in debt.

    Only when the true villains that committed 9/11 are exposed will there be any hope.
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  • Posted by ssadesign 10 years, 4 months ago
    When government gets this big,out of control, and unaccountable, it becomes a trainwreck. Unfortunately, i think we are going to see a lot more of it.
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  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think AS was intended to be more than just a "story." You may think differently, but the principle involved is the same. You have a right to "complain" without participating in the election. Refusing to join in the madness does not forfeit your right to point out the truth. One might as well argue that anyone who participates in the election has no right to complain of the result. That's a fallacious argument also.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 10 years, 4 months ago
    Compartmentalization is the problem...that's how one looses their connection to the mind, become sheep, if only to be occultated from the big picture right down to what's going on in the next cubical. That's how they get over on conscious folks...it's become part of the paradigm.

    I can't help see the consequences of progressivism here.
    If anything it shows just how upside down, backwards and inside out the paradigm has become.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'd love to believe so. However, such a scenario doesn't look likely. Things have gotten so close to dissolution that it may be probable to get back from the brink, but not far enough to believe things will continue in that direction. I'd be happy to be wrong.
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  • Posted by Bethesda-gal 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In the book Dagney battles back against what does end up happening, but in real life, don't you believe there is any reasonable chance that you can add option #3 to your list - that enough people pull things back from the brink and the country gets back to sanity ?
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 10 years, 4 months ago
    Well, that's what you can get with public owner-
    ship of utilities. But who will listen to us?
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  • Posted by Bethesda-gal 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And an unelectable conservative candidate is still unelectable. You have to play the hand you're dealt. This is why I urge citizens ( and I don't make distinction arbitrarily, because the Democrats in Maryland are trying to get a bill passed for illegals to be able to vote) should get as derply involved in politics as possible. And if someone's not involved, they have no right to complain about the outcome.
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  • Posted by Bethesda-gal 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Right. And then what type of candidate do you think would win in their stead ?? Most likely even more centrist, ie. less fiscally conservative.
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 10 years, 4 months ago
    How can you expect "The People" to understand basic engineering principles, when "The People" do not understand basic MATH. Case in point, the entire $15.00 minimum wage debacle going on in the various places stupid enough to actually try to make it happen.

    Of course many other examples could be cited but that was the first that jumped to my mind.
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  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What do I suggest? Here's an idea: As a group they should resign from the Republican party, re-register as Libertarians tomorrow and endorse Gary Johnson for President. Now that would make headlines and be a positive step forward. They won't do it, however, because they will be afraid they will not be re-elected and that is really what they are about.
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  • Posted by jabuttrick 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am paying attention. Your way of thinking has given us the slide into today's society with the help of both Republicans and Democrats. The "socially supported programs" to which you refer have often been expanded, enhanced and "saved" by the "GOP candidates" such as Bush and his ilk. Here's another pithy saying: A meal made up of half food and half poison is still poisonous.
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  • Posted by Pyawakit 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If a dem wins this time I am withdrawing from Facebook, Twitter, and all sites that mark me as a libertarian/conservative and will just try to live as best as possible under the tyranny that will follow. Over half the people in this country deserve what they will experience and I will no longer step in to protect or help. I will truly be on strike. (I am mostly there already)
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The irony there is that they won't get elected, anyway. They are starting to realize that they need to slide continually to the left in order to get elected.

    It's over. You can quote me...
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