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The Oil Industry Is Hardly Free To Operate As Efficiently As It Could Or To Be As Responsive To Consumer Demands As It Would Like. It Has Become, In Essence, A Quasi-state-run Enterprise, Because It Cannot Drill, Transport, Refine, And Store Fuel Without Receiving Government Permission, Complying With Government Regulations, And Paying Taxes At Every Level Or Production.

In The Free Market, A Man Born Into Wealth Or Who Has Otherwise Acquired Great Riches Can Lose His Fortune Depending On How He Chooses To Behave. Conversely, A Man Born Into Poverty Or Who Has Lost Wealth Once Obtained Can Acquire A Fortune, Depending, Again, On How He Chooses To Behave.

There Are Black Christians, And Black Muslims In Africa Who Are Being Slaughtered, They Don't Want To Hear About The Jim Crow Laws. There Are Christians, There Are Other Muslims Being Slaughtered In The Middle East, They Don't Need A Lecture From Obama About Christianity. The Fact Of The Matter Is Obama Is Not Doing Anything Effective Or Substantive To Stop Genocide In Our Time.

Social Security Is A Widely Popular Program Because The Individual Has Been Deceived By The Statist To Believe That The Government Has Been Prudently And Diligently Managing His Accumulated Pension Investment In His Social Security Account, Which He Presumes To Be Funded By His Own Payroll Taxes.

Moreover, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Hobbes’s Distrust For The Individual With His Confidence In The Altruistic Nature Of The Individual Or Individuals Who Will Oversee And Control The Leviathan. Are Not The Latter Also Of Flesh And Blood? Hobbes Seems To Be Saying That Man’s Nature Cannot Be Trusted But The Nature Of A Ruler Or A Ruling Assembly Of Men Can Be Trusted. How So?