Let’s return to the days of the yesteryear capitalism with freedom fighter Ayn Rand (and her supporter Rose Wilder Lane). According to A.R., "Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.... The four philosophical keystones are: metaphysically, the requirements of man’s nature and survival, epistemologically, reason, ethically, individual rights, and politically, freedom. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man’s rational nature, that it protects man’s survival qua man, and that it’s ruling principle is justice." In 1967, A.R. also said that "the country ( America) is starved for a voice of consistency, clarity and moral self-confidence" which she thought she heard in Ronald Reagan’s famous speech and which leadership she said "cannot be achieved or projected by consenus-seeking anti-ideologists." She warned about the the core of the doctrine of consensus called compromise. "The task of defining ideas and goals is not the province of politicians," she said. "The task belongs to the intellectuals." A.R. knew that the primary values of a society lie in knowledge and trade, both of which have been dissed by the present Congress and President Obama. Their ideas of consensus in bi-partisanship negate the processes of rational thought. Current bailouts, ‘investments’ and the stimulus package, better understood as the porkulus, are neither in the citizens’ best interest or self-interest.

Freedom, baby, it’s all about freedom, practiced responsibly through rational choices benefitting one’s self-interests. Rand reminds us of the dangers of defaulting on the responsibility of seeking knowledge, choosing values and setting goals. If a person surrenders to the authority of others, Rand asks "How is he to escape the feeling that the universe is closed to him? It is, by his own choice." This is exactly what is happening today.

The Bill of Rights talks about our natural rights. Rand again: "Those who advocate laissez-faire capitalism are the only advocates of man’s rights." Objectivist ethics calls for men to be of value to each other by being rational, productive and independent in a free society. A society that "robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment - a society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of a man’s nature - is not, strictly speaking a society, " because it "destroys all the values of human coexistence,"...

In her famous novel, Atlas Shrugged , Rand tells the story of the conflict between the "reason-individualism-capitalism axis" versus the "mysticism-altruism-collectivism axis." She said that "the conflict is not political or economic, but moral and philosophical . - that the dominant philosophy of our age is a virulent revolt against reason - that the so-called redistribution of wealth" and the "superficial manifestation of that axis is anti-man, anti-mind, and anti-life."

That was in 1957. What could be scarier today to know that nothing’s changed. A dehumanized man, a dehumanized society. Obamaland!