http://globalnews.ca/news/1223684/edmonton-british-food-shop-forced-to-close-its-doors-after-battle-with-cfia/ Utterly disgraceful this really hammers home Francisco's "money speech ". Especially this part "To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except by the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss – the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery – that you must offer them values, not wounds – that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best your money can find. And when men live by trade – with reason, not force, as their final arbiter – it is the best product that wins, the best performance, then man of best judgment and highest ability – and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. "Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not 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 by 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 it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot. A successful business destroyed by increased government regulation. 11 of his top 15 products are now somehow illegal. After 17 years of walking up hill and building branches in all of Western Canada this man's livelyhood is crushed with the stroke of a pen and threats if his products are not pulled from his shelves. The willing relation between business and happy willing customers destroyed arbitrarily by parasites that produce nothing. Value destroying beauricrats at their finest. Who's neck will be on the chopping block next. (Edited by Jules Troy on 3/22, 2:43am) (Edited by Jules Troy on 3/22, 2:46am)
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