carey_jim

Automakers: A Pitiful Trio

The best solution to the Big Three auto makers would be for the United States government to nationalize the Japanese auto industry and then let the big three fail.

Which reminds me of Arnold Schwarzeneggar's solution-joke for gay marriage: "Gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."

Ayn Rand came from one of the wealthy Russian families who lost their fortunes after the Russian Revolution. Like the Cuban exiles in Florida today, they joined the anti-Communist movement and romanticized the American system of monopoly capitalism that Marx, Lenin and Stalin had characterized as criminal.

Any Rand transformed Karl Marx's evil "Mr. Moneybags" into a romantic figure called John Galt, and later, one of Ayn Rand's lovers, Alan Greenspan, helped to produce the Great Economic Expansion, I suppose while imagining himself to be an incarnation of Ayn Rand's hero.

The real solution for the problem of the Big Three is to let Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison run them.

To accomplish this, we need to form a Galtist political party in America. Alan Greenspan would be the first Galtist president, of course.

His campaign slogan would probably be "Green is beautiful."