Originally Posted by F-16 viperman

"When You see that trading is not done by consent, but by compulsion-when You see that in order to produce, You need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-when You see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors-when You see that men get richer by graft and pull, than by work, and Your laws don't protect You against Them, but protect Them against You-when You see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice-You may know that Your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that doesnot compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot." Ayn Rand, Author, Atlas shrugged.