“The Worst Time to Make Money in the History of Our Country”
Following the passage of Washington D.C.’s hostile takeover of our nation’s healthcare industry — Cheryl Bachelder — the CEO of AFC Enterprises, which owns the Popeyes quick-service restaurant chain — commented that Popeyes’ franchisees would suffer a “bone-crushing” impact on their businesses due to the new law, and that “This is the worst time for making money in the history of our country.” This is ominous, and it reminds me of two quotes from the outstanding novel “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.
First, “Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot. Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence… When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world? You are.”
Second, “If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose — because it contains all the others — the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity — to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted, or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.”
The suit-wearing savages who infest Washington D.C. side with their shameful enablers — society’s parasites. I side with the producers — those who peacefully create wealth (small amounts and large amounts), rather than obtain it via tears or guns. With whom do you side? I encourage you to make your decision now, as the time to choose in our country is rapidly running out.
– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights
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