John Sowa wrote:

Anybody who has a small business knows that the biggest enemy of small business is *not* the government. It's big business. The regulations that hurt small business were *not* written by government, they were written by lobbyists for big business who want to stamp out the competition.

I (a small business owner for decades) disagree. The government is every bit as involved in the corporate-government partnership. The lobbyists are simply one part of that partnership, paid by the large businesses to provide congressmen with excuses for their nefarious actions, both legislation and regulation.

-Rich

Sincerely,

Rich Cooper

EnglishLogicKernel.com

Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com

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From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John F Sowa
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 6:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Self Interest Ontology

On 5/28/2012 8:30 AM, Mike Pool wrote:

> He also summarily lumps Hayek in the same paragraph with __Rand__. That

> is also a surprise to me. Too bad the article is so short. I would

> like to have understood his objection to Hayek as well.

Chomsky's primary objection to them is the same as anybody else in the

middle class: self interest.

Anybody who has a small business knows that the biggest enemy of small

business is *not* the government. It's big business. The regulations

that hurt small business were *not* written by government, they were

written by lobbyists for big business who want to stamp out the competition.

Don't think of Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany as governments. They were

oligarchies run by big bussinesses that stamp out all competition. Note

that they achieved the goal of all corporations -- give the stockholdera

as little information as possible about what management is doing.

That's the primary blindness in Rand and Hayek -- also Ron Paul, who

blindly admires both.

In comparison to Ron Paul, I am a *true* Libertarian. I want freedom

from big corporations who stick their hand in my wallet and my personal

life at every turn.

John

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