Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces -- with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything now.