FrankWolfWatch

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
2:16:00 AM EDT
The following message was submitted to the Editor of the Loudoun Independent:
 

In his opposition to the rate increase requested by the privately owned Dulles Greenway, U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf has demonstrated himself to be the enemy of Capitalism, and thereby, individual rights [“Frank Wolf, Board oppose toll hike”,  Loudoun Independent, 9/6/2006].
 
There was a time when private roadways, railroads, and other means of transportation flourished in our country; however, government regulation and price controls destroyed those private efforts by violating individual rights.  In response to the manifest failure of government to provide transportation, given its consideration of other irrelevant issues such as environmental impact and access for those that will not pay for the services that they demand, the trend in transportation has again favored private for-profit enterprise. 
 
However, Mr. Wolf’s myopic opposition based upon his irrational hatred of profit threatens to bankrupt private industry through the force of government and again leave those of us willing to trade value for value with a private business to the depredations of the political pull-peddlers like Congressman Wolf and the wealth redistributionists in Richmond.
 
I for one have enjoyed access to the Dulles Greenway and have joyfully paid them.  They have provided the service promised at the price they published, expanded their service by creating additional lanes in response to their success, and saved me the equivalent of two weeks labor a year by giving me a means to avoid impassibly congested public roads, which claim to be free but have an excessive cost in time.
 
Those that disagree with the protection of individual rights, which includes property rights, are free to boycott the private road over the higher rates and sit in traffic on the public Leesburg Turnpike.
 
As is usual for him, Congressman Wolf misses the real issue that is properly in the domain of his job description.  Given the Federal Reserves monetary policy which has devalued the dollar, increases in prices is the inevitable result.  However, if Congressman Wolf was doing his job, we would have a dollar that was as good as gold.
 
In his public town hall meetings, Congressman Wolf expresses his commitment to be part of the solution to problems by working together.  However, he ignores the fact that his opposition to individual rights—whether it be on issues of private property, reproductive rights, or the independence of science from the agenda of the religious right—makes him part of the problem as well.
 
As I abandoned Del. Dick Black, despite my support for Congressman Wolf at the polls over the decades, as of today, I do not plan to vote for Mr. Wolf in November as he does not merit my previous confidence in him.

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