Re: (erielack) The Piermont Branch 6' guage

["Schuyler G Larrabee" <"sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com">]

Blake D. Tatar wrote:


> Eleazar Lord decided

No, the State of New York did

> to go with 6 foot gauge when he learned that the
> government (who should have nothing to do with commerce at all)

Now THERE"S a statement that could be debated!  Jay Gould/Jim Fisk, John D
Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J P Morgan, maybe even Bill Gates . . . no, we
don't need rules for commerce at all . . .

There is no debate about it. You either have capitalism which is based on
free enterprise protected by individual rights, or one of many forms of
socialism where capitalism is "permitted" when seen fit by a group of men
who design and create nothing. But being that most people like the
government control deal, we'll stick with it...until (as has always happened
throughout the history of man) the creators will be punished to the point
that they refuse to create. The stagnation of the middle ages is the best
example of that. Hope I'm not around to see it. By the way, Jay Gould and
Jim Fisk were the only 2 on your list that actually violated individual
rights by stealing money and printing their own stocks (to name a few). The
others created great empires while their workers (who had nothing before)
and our wonderful government (who produced nothing) forced them to give up
what they created (at the point of a gun or the threat of imprisonment). How
does that saying go? "The good of the many outweighs the good of the one"...
It's the theme song for every tyrant to come down the pike. Sorry mister
Larrabee, I'm a champion of what our founding fathers set out to accomplish,
unfortunately, it never got started.

Blake D. Tatar
"BDTatar_@_worldnet.att.net"
http://home.att.net/~BDTatar/index.htm



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