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I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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I Can Live With The Robber Barons,

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. it would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. the robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. here we are, in the century that has seen lenin, stalin, mao, hitler, castro, pol pot-and we're still being warned against the 'robber barons' of the 19th century. i don't know that jay gould or john d. rockefeller ever killed anyone. the state has killed countless people, and yet we're always supposed to remain on guard against these 'greedy villains' of yesteryear.
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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. you can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. that's just corporations doing what they do and iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.
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