On its website, Variety reports that Ralph Nader, “crusader for the consumer, perennial presidential candidate and author of many nonfiction books taking on everything from General Motors to the government,” has written his first novel. “Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us!” will be released on September 22. The book “centers on 17 rich icons with a political bent, including Warren Beatty and Warren Buffet, and their fictional plan to turn the country’s fortunes around back in the year 2006.” Nader calls it “his ‘answer to Ayn Rand.'”
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MILNES-CARTER 2012!!!!!!
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Here’s a great reply.
http://blog.tomender.com/2009/08/25/the-government-can/
Mr. Nader, make us laugh out loud? I’m buying it!
Thank you for running for President in 2008!
Wayward Tedward!
Wayward ????? Tedward was also a full blown U. S. Senator when ‘Norma Jean Baker’ expired of a ‘Drug Over Dose’ in 1963. I’m not saying that Teddy was in on it, and I will not say that he killed Mary Jo [pregnant with his seed ????] but it was beyond doubt that his actions, and at least in actions, lead to her untimely demise and he was a powerful figure when noisy, loud, pushy First Lady wanna be super star Monroe died unexpectantly!
I will not say that the KKK brothers directly murdered Marlyn Monroe [wasn’t she married to President James …….] but then again ……….
Like Michael Jackson, weird stuff just keeps happening with the Kennedys [and the Rockefellers] ………
—Thu, 8/27/09, Stop Soto Now :
From: Stop Soto Now
Tedward Kennedy: America’s Greatest Traitor Dies
To: “Citizens For A Better Veterans Home”
Thursday, August 27, 2009, 6:17 PM
?
Thanks for the note. Check the other emails, I had trouble
getting the link right.
************ could be, they are a few years old, and the centrist, middle of the road, reform movement continues to self destruct. We [they] did not like Uncle Teddy much either! Ya have any opinions on the Moderate Party or the Modern Whigs **********
Paul Streitz
CT Citizens for Immigration Control
ctcic@optonline. net
http://www.ctimmigration. com
—– Original Message —–
Citizens For A Better Veterans Home
To: ctcic@optonline. net
Cc: Charles Ragsdell II, Moderate Party
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:10
Subject: Tedward Kennedy: America’s
Greatest Traitor Dies
These are kinda
strident comments,
But I
will give it to ya that the guy’s personal life
was a train wreck
in action, including illegalities!
— On Wed, 8/26/09,
ctcic@optonline. net
ctcic@optonline. net
Subject: America’s
Greatest Traitor Dies
To: Citizens For A Better Veterans Home:
Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 5:52 PM
America’s Greatest Traitor
Dies
Paul
Streitz
Oh yeah, the Ferres Doctrine extends to civilian contractors and sub contractors!
One of the abuses of active duty, veterans, citizens and corporations is the 1950 ‘Ferres Doctrine’! Due to Cold War hysteria plaintiffs are not allowed to complain or collect on DoD and or USDVA neglect, no matter how provable!
‘National interest’ —– to screw our own people with!
Like Kiddie Porn King [Dem] Wade Sanders and ‘the worst Congress Member in federal history’ [GOP] Puke Cunningham —— both spending time in federal stir, beware of boiler plating officials whom [like Austrian tank cadet and muscle head Der Ahnold] ‘love dose vets’ with out knowing any of the details!
Tom @ # 8 – you stole my line!
Deran @ #12 – it has been shown that air bags in cars can kill young children and babies. They are mandated by a law that Ralph Nader pushed.
Ralph Nader has been good on a couple issues – opposing the war, and supporting legal marijuana. But these issues never excite him as much as pushing for new regulations on business. He should read Kolko and find out that big business always ends up controlling the regulators and using them against competitors.
Lol, what a silly moron. I wonder if he even bothered to read anything by Rand. And if he did if he was able to understand ten percent of it.
Why weren’t air crew staff trained, armed, and able to defend their planes on 9/11? Government regulations.
When people should have been suing them over it, what happened? Government regulations told those people they could have a token amount of federal money, but could not sue the airlines!
While I am no fan of Rand, I think you’re vastly over-enthused about what government regulations do for people. Most of what they do is prevent lawsuits that would actually prevent corporations from making unsafe decisions and unsafe products. If we removed all regulation, and people simply sued out of existence any corporation that was doing things unsafely that led to injuries, I guarantee you we’d have a safer world. Corporations are in it for a profit. Losing all of your money and assets in lawsuits is not profitable. Only the government protects these corporations from that civil liability.
Deran,
Pick up Unsafe At Any Speed some time and see how far you get before you hit the first bald-faced lie (hint: It’s in the introduction).
Give me a break., Nader has had more beneficial effects on how we live our daily lives than any member of the LP ever has. Half of you would be dead or injured without Nader’s work for CPSC, OSHA, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.
Ayn Rand was a snorable writer and a churlish malthusian. Look at the terrible damage her ideas have had when played out by Friedman and Greenspan.
Didn’t Ayn Rand practically ghost write Piekoff’s Ominous Parallels, offering incessant critiques, so that Piekoff kept re-writing the book, trying to please her?
Rob, and in today’s day and age, you then call up the government and ask them to create some regulations which will create a barrier to entry to further prevent competition. You then whine about how the government is so annoying because they are regulating your industry to some news reporter, while driving in your Porsche on your way to the bank.
actually, the problem with Rand is every ideal she had worked just as well as every ideal marx had: on paper, it’s all perfect. In the real world, none of it is.
If you can read “atlas shrugged” and think for ten seconds it describes anything that could, has, or will occur on this planet, you’re simply not trying very hard to pay attention.
Case in point: the best way to stay super-rich is to corner a market with a small number of other very rich people and all work together to all milk the cow. That’s not honorable, it’s not a free market, and it’s a natural end result of any laissez-faire economic structure in any market therein with sufficient wealth to support a small number of super-rich players.
And it’s trivially easy to do once you are at the top. You just pick up the phone and talk to maybe a half-dozen other guys and agree on how much you all want to make, safely, without all the messy competition.
Has Nader ever written anything that WASN’T fiction?
Leonard Peikoff’s book “The Ominous Parallels” is better than any nonfiction that Rand wrote. I highly recommend it. Nader can’t refute anything in that book.
It comes down to the individuals running things. I think it’s best to try to teach businessmen the ideas in Rand, Peikoff, and Rothbard’s books. One won’t be very successful at that, but that’s the ideal. I’m sure Nader doesn’t have the slightest concept of the ideal, because when I saw him speak in 2000, he advocated taxing the internet.
Like I said, he’s a dolt.
…LOL..
As a fictitious ideal, Atlas Shrugged was quite good. The problem comes into play with the fact that when an Ayn Rand Acolyte in the REAL WORLD is asked to become “economic dictator”, he accepts. (Greenspan)
As a novel of rebellion, I favor “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross, or “Molon Labe” by Boston T. Party, or “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert Heinlein (for something that is similarly sci-fi in comparison to “Atlas”, but much more realistic than a “ray screen”).
Of course, next to Rand (in spite of her real-world flaws), Nader looks like a dolt.
Yeah, stalinist pig, go emulate Saddam Hussein by writing a novel while pretending not to be a criminal mastermind.
And I spoke unto the Lord and said, “Please pray for the soul of our ascended master, Edward Moore Kennedy, the lion of the Senate, of liberalism, of Catholic socialism throughout the world. Speed him through purgatory and into heaven, for the satanic world control conspiracy has hounded him relentlessy. Killing his brothers, then poisoning with drugs which turned out to be mind control agents and that caused the Chapaquiddock incident, which people still blame Kennedy before when it was really the predecessors of Ralph Nader. Alas, alas, our lion hath departed, O LORD, BUT HE SHALT REIGN IN THE HEARTS OF GOOD MEN FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN.
Milnes-Carter 2012
Nader writing fiction? Sounds awesome. Can’t wait to read it.
I want to read it. But I hope it isn’t 1500 pages like Atlas Shrugged.
Can you imagine if 17 super rich people wasted their time, money and energy making government more intrusive than it is now – what a nightmare!
The 2009 version of dystopian 1984.
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