Hi csl,
I see you sharing views more with folks like William Graham Sumner.
"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."
"Before the tribunal of nature a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence..."
Of government money printing: "They print notes which have no security and make the public use them as money."
"Private property, also, which we have seen to be a feature of society organized in accordance with the natural conditions of the struggle For existence produces inequalities between men. The struggle for existence is aimed against nature. It is from her niggardly hand that we have to wrest the satisfaction for our needs, but our fellow-men are our competitors for the meager supply. Competition, therefore, is a law of nature. Nature is entirely neutral; she submits to him who most energetically and resolutely assails her. She grants her rewards to the fittest, therefore, without regard to other considerations of any kind. If, then, there be liberty, men get from her just in proportion to their works, and their having and enjoying are just in proportion to their being and their doing. Such is the system of nature. If we do not like it, and if we try to amend it, there is only one way in which we can do it. We can take from the better and give to the worse. We can deflect the penalties of those who have done ill and throw them on those who have done better. We can take the rewards from those who have done better and give them to those who have done worse. We shall thus lessen the inequalities. We shall favor the survival of the unfittest, and we shall accomplish this by destroying liberty. Let it be understood that we cannot go outside of this alternative; liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest; not-liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors all its worst members."
Like you, basically, he thought the folks who succeed are the virtuous hard workers and the folks who fail are the lazy good-for-nothings. Luck was not in his vocabulary. Nor was sympathy. Competition was the thing. Cooperation was nothing. Rich people are not merely rich; their success marks them as better.
And beyond that, he was also a great believer in gold. Though not silver quite so much.
The original constitution doesn't belong to the right. Indeed, you make a strongly anti-constitutional statement in this post: "there should be no taxation of any citizen."
I'm curious in which ways you see yourself as a follower of Jefferson.
Reference: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914sumner.html
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