Quote from Rearden Metal:
Thanks, and I respect you on a personal level as well.
The main irony in your proposals is that on one hand you seem to share my complete lack of faith in politicians & gov't officials to do the right thing, yet you think they should somehow be replaced with <i>other</i> gov't officials & politicians with carte blanche authority to stack corpse-piles to the sky? History has proven repeatedly that your brand of ruthless populist-fascism brings only one possible result: Power corrupts. It wouldn't be long before they go from stacking the 'right' corpses, to adding the bodies of your friends and family to the rotting pile. You must know this on some level.
Rearden, don't you know the solution to government abuse of power is just to change the people in power? I mean, if we do that, and your new masters abuse a different set of people (who you personally don't identify with) then it's all ok. If liberals are abusing conservatives, throw them out and elect some conservatives to abuse some liberals (and those stinky Mexicans). That always works!