Some Things Never Change

Just ran across this post from a couple of years ago. Here's the summation:

What I find most reprehensible about the values of the spoiled brat brand of libertarianism, and even more, those of the teabagger sockpuppets, is that they make a lot of noise about "personal responsibility" but that concept never seems to translate into actual responsibility toward anyone. (Although Sullivan, at least, admits that we need government, but he seems uncomfortable that those who derive the most benefit from it should foot most of the bill.) It's the end result of St. Ronnie's "Greed is Good" philosophy. And it's all based on fairy tales of how "entrepreneurs" have all earned it. Bullshit.

Even chimpanzees can do better than that.

Given the fact that the right is willing to torpedo everything (except defense, of course) to avoid taxing the rich -- again -- it's still relevant.

(About that "entrepreneurship" -- I'm reminded of a news item from a couple of years ago, about a project Sony undertook under a DoD contract, to develop a solar batter/panel system that could be used on vehicles. They did it, built a factory, built prototypes, and everything worked. Project over. I believe it was Conoco who bought the patents and the factory, leveled the factory and buried the patents somewhere in the "drop dead before reading" file. That's the kind of imaginative, outside-the-box thinking you get from major corporations -- in this case, an "energy" company that could have cleaned up in the renewable energy market.)