Left? Right? or Balanced! Part 2

Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged" outlines her Utopia - "Galt's Gulch". This is a society where men and women have no moral code other than seeking their own wealth, satisfaction, and existence. They are answerable to nothing but their own moral conscience which includes profit. She identifies the fact that the people who attain this Utopian ideal have decided that never again will they provide their talent, time, and treasure for the use of a population that expects it. They will not empower the "takers" nor will they exist solely as the "givers". But, is this our highest aim? It certainly qualifies as the extreme right - liberty only, no laws - no absolutes, simply MAN and his MIND.

Extreme Right is NOT Conservatism.

The current controversies in the United States seem to center on the same system that Ayn Rand is fighting.

• Health care for everyone: why should a brilliant surgeon, dedicated to his craft, embracing his talent, having invested heavily in his own education allow any entity to dictate the price he should charge and the time he should give? 'Obamacare' would structure such dictates on Health care.
• The unions played an important part in our society at one time, yet today they exist basically by guaranteeing a job for a worker - regardless of performance and value to the company which hired him.
• The government has recently determined that bonuses paid to banking executives were too large.
• The government has engineered the resignations of CEO's, taken a strong hand in housing, education, agriculture, and the utilities industry.

The direction America is heading is a liberal smorgasbord of control. It certainly is heading to the extreme left: no liberties - laws ONLY and EVERY man must serve ALL men.

Current right (the mainstream Republican Party) is NOT Conservatism!

If the final authority for mankind is MAN himself, then the FAR RIGHT is correct. Man should live for himself, provide for himself, and answer to himself. Selfishness would rule, and compassion could not and would not be directed to those in need. If the final authority for mankind is government, then the FAR LEFT is correct. Man should exist only within the framework of laws which require that he live for the collective, provide for the collective and answer to the collective. Laziness would rule, no one's needs would be met because each one in need would be directed only to one in greater need.
However with God as a final authority, Man lives to His glory and depends upon God's provision. What man is given in surplus can be shared with those in need. When answerable to God, man's compassion is commanded and lack thereof is punished, but BY GOD. Laws developed in answer to God, protect mankind and offer order and structure, NOT dictates and demands.

True Conservatism answers to the Creator and is the perfect balance between RIGHT & LEFT.