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true liberal Wrote: Sep 17, 2012 7:32 AM

Somewhere along the way, greed got a bad name. Greed in business and striving for success is a good trait to have in the private sector. Where greed is bad is where the greedy enlist the powers of government to punish or eliminate their rivals or help themselves unfairly. Unions, GM and Solyndra are the bad forms of greed.

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Tacitus X Wrote: Sep 17, 2012 9:14 AM

Milton Friedman made the point years ago that it's always "the other guy" who's greedy, never us.

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Bringing Selfish Back

Step aside, Justin Timberlake. Let’s bring selfish back, y’all!

Last week, I wrote that if you are a Christian, you must embrace Ayn Rand’s economic philosophy (capitalism). Today, I will explore this further.

To recap, philosophers who came before Christ (think Aristotle), philosophers who rejected Christ (think Rand) and philosophers who accepted Christ (think Thomas Aquinas) concur that human laws must stem from natural law, which stems from reason. Said differently, all rational thinkers embrace natural law. Capitalism is the most rational political system and therefore the best political expression of natural law, so rational Christians...

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