As Ayn Rand explained so long ago: “When the ‘common good’ (i.e., social utility) of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals. It is tacitly assumed, in such cases, that ‘the common good’ means the good of the majority as against the minority or individual.”

It seems unfathomable that after a century of constant failure by every “social utility-minded” government on the planet, that today in 2010, the American government must be re-educated to that history of failure.

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