Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Go Forth, Make Money, Hold Your Head Up

“This chronic cycle will not end until businessmen accept that their production of profit is neither immoral nor amoral--it is the capstone of moral virtue. Once they shrug off the role of scapegoat, businessmen can demand with moral certitude that government punish fraud and enforce contracts but refrain from interfering with voluntary trades among consenting adults.
“When America’s markets are finally free of all coercion--in other words, when laissez-faire is achieved--financial crises such as the one we’re experiencing will never happen again.”

For more, go see this from AynRand.org.  I need to read Atlas Shrugged.  One of my siblings has it.....  someone 'fess up so I can borrow it!  :-)

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