Comments (11)

• Enjoy Every Sandwich

  I wonder where the statists think they will find their "men of genius".

  And to think that the statists have the nerve to call us "utopian".

  Published: June 30, 2009 8:37 AM

• fundamentalist

  Very sad story of what many people would consider progress. It's actually regression to totalitarianism. Some famous Roman said that the most common sin is the desire to make everyone else act like us. It seems that some people will stop at nothing to ensure that everyone else thinks and acts like them. In a society that prides itself on tolerance, where is the tolerance for letting people be different?

  I have to admit that Christians are oftent he worst offenders. If one person can't handle his liquor, then no one will be allowed to drink. Of if one person loses his rent at the casino, then no one can gamble. It seems to be a curse of human nature to insist that we all march lock step to the same dismal ending.

  Published: June 30, 2009 8:39 AM

• Thinker

  Statist leaders seem to come in two stripes: the selfishly power-hungry and those who want to use government to "help the helpless." The altruists are potentially even more dangerous than the others; convinced of their superiority and their ability to design state agencies for the benefit of those they wish to help-the sick, the poor, the aged, so on-despite clear and indisputable arguments that the cure is worse than the disease and that expanding government at all is a push down a very slippery slope. These people are arrogant to believe they can control the beast and short-sighted to believe their "controls" will survive them. These kool-aid drinking devotees of the State Religion are more dangerous than the merely power-hungry because they can't be caught in a lie, because the believe everything they say, and tend to convince the masses that their crazy ideas are "sensible", "moderate", "progressive", and, most insidiously, "liberal".

  And worse-they are EVERYWHERE.

  Published: June 30, 2009 9:49 AM

• Walt D.

  Good article Jim. Shortly after reading it I found this.
  
  "President Barack Obama says his new Consumer Financial Protection Agency will protect Americans from unscrupulous practices and make financial products easier to understand.
  

  The president on Tuesday sent Congress a 152-page bill to create the new agency, a key element in the sweeping overhaul of financial rules the administration unveiled two weeks ago.
  

  Obama says the agency will ensure that consumers are provided with simple, transparent and accurate information on financial products like credit cards and mortgages."
  
  Yet another unelected Federal Bureaucracy and another czar/dictator.

  Published: June 30, 2009 10:21 AM

• doug

  Take away pensions for serving in government!

  Published: June 30, 2009 10:45 AM

• Shay

  Perhaps the first financial product this new Consumer Financial Protection Agency can protect Americans from the unscrupulous practices of and provide simple, transparent, and accurate information about is the Federal Reserve.
  

  Published: June 30, 2009 2:26 PM

• Henry Miller

  A genius is just as likely to be out for his own good - even at the expense of others - as anyone else. A stupid man at least won't hide it well enough to fool us.

  Published: June 30, 2009 4:49 PM

• Henry Miller

  A genius is just as likely to be out for his own good - even at the expense of others - as anyone else. A stupid man at least won't hide it well enough to fool us.

  Published: June 30, 2009 4:50 PM

• Stephen Grossman

  >[Jim Fedako]"The township went about its business and we went about ours. Not liberty, but not oppression. A nice middle ground, so to speak."

  [The Pragmatists] declared that philosophy must be practical and that practicality consists of dispensing with all absolute principles and standards—that there is no such thing as objective reality or permanent truth—that truth is that which works, and its validity can be judged only by its consequences—that no facts can be known with certainty in advance, and anything may be tried by rule-of-thumb—that reality is not firm, but fluid and “indeterminate,” that there is no such thing as a distinction between an external world and a consciousness (between the perceived and the perceiver), there is only an undifferentiated package-deal labeled “experience,” and whatever one wishes to be true, is true, whatever one wishes to exist, does exist, provided it works or makes one feel better. AYN RAND

  Published: June 30, 2009 7:17 PM

• Mrhuh

  Any chance Jim on what your town's name is and where it's at as well as the neighboring township that voted against monopoly refuse. Just curious since it would be interesting to read about the story of the place.

  Published: July 1, 2009 1:21 AM

• Jim Fedako

  Mrhuh,

  I live in Orange Twp, Delaware County. The neighboring township is Liberty Twp. The original article has been archived (fee to view it). There is a shorter version here.

  Published: July 1, 2009 10:40 AM