<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[How Time Flies]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Fiction to Fact in only <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html" target="_blank">52 years</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The current economic strategy is right out of &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221;: The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That&#8217;s the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies &#8212; while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers. With each successive bailout to &#8220;calm the markets,&#8221; another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as &#8220;Atlas&#8221; grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate &#8220;windfalls.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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