Re: (erielack) The Piermont Branch 6' guage

[The Jordans <"pamela_@_blast.net">]

Blake-

Thank you for your words of wisdom.  My thoughts exactly.  The government,
ANY government, should not have the right to interfere with any business or
commerce.
The railroads, I'm sorry to say, has had a history of government
interference and has had to suffer many reversals because of it.

- -Joe Jordan

At 01:09 PM 01/16/2000 -0500, Blake D. Tatar wrote:
>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:56:17 -0500
>From: "Schuyler G Larrabee" <"sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com">
>Subject: Re: (erielack) The Piermont Branch 6' guage
>
>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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