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Posted on 01/12/2008 10:28:17 AM PST by goldstategop
Now there are generally two reactions to the above story. If you're like me, you're reminded yet again why you love capitalism. It's dynamic. And the more capitalist your economy, the more dynamic it is. Every great success story is vulnerable to the next great success story – which is why teenagers aren't picking their CDs from the Sears-Roebuck catalog. There's a word for this. Now let me see. What was it again?
Oh, yeah: "change." Innovation drives change, the market drives change. Government "change" just drives things away: You could ask many of the New Hampshire primary voters who formerly resided in Massachusetts.
Nevertheless, between Iowa and New Hampshire, almost every presidential contender found himself lapsing into boilerplate assertions that he was the "candidate of change" – or even, as both McCain and Hillary put it, an "agent of change," which sounds far more exotic, as if they're James Bond and Pussy Galore covertly driving the Aston Martin across some international frontier, pressing the ejector button and dropping a ton of government regulation on some hapless foreigners.
But it's capitalism that's the real "agent of change." Politicians, on the whole, prefer stasis, at least on everything for which they already have responsibility. That's the lesson King Canute was trying to teach his courtiers when he took them down to the beach and let the tide roll in: Government has its limits. In most of the Western world, the tide is rolling in on demographically and economically unsustainable entitlements, but that doesn't stop politicians getting out their beach chairs and promising to create even more. That's government "change".
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Mess with the Invisible Hand at your own risk.
This is something politicians never seem to learn.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Entrepreneurs, business leaders, scientific researchers, artists, that’s where real change occurs. Republicans are missing the boat imho, on this message. Captialism is also real empowerment for people, not government handouts.
America has historically been the place where towering success can be achieved by virtually anyone with the right idea, know-how, work ethic, etc. That's the American dream that's propelled millions to want to become Americans and that's the dream that needs to be nurtured and protected.
Yeah. But limit it to Canadians. Otherwise, we have President Arnold.
Great read!
The whole raison d’etre of the Democrat Party is that people (except of course for the evil, nasty rich i.e. anyone making over eighty thousand a year) are all stupid, bumbling fools who need the super-sized hand of government to enslave er I mean help them. What that hand does is envelop suckers in a spider-web they can’t get out of. But it sure looks good said the fly to the spider.
It’s astounding how Steyn can bring in all the wildly different things that happened this week and tie them all together into this article. All in the name of Capitalism. It’s just astounding!
Terrific. In a Huckabee administration, nothing is certain but hope and taxes. Did he poll-test the line? Was it originally "What I didn't raise was tobacco"? Or did he misread the line? Did he mean to say "hogs"? Is there any correlation between taxes and hope? If you cut taxes by 20 percent, does hope nosedive off the cliff? Not for those of us who were hoping for a tax cut. And is there any evidence that he "raised hope"? Hope of what? Huck's line is a degradation of FDR: We have nothing to hope for but hope itself.
Yep.
And the more a person counts on the government (or anybody else) to do what he should do for himself, the less of a person one is.
The Welfare State diminishes us all.
How about if we conquer Canada then Mark Steyn can be President. The war would only last one day..
Who are legal residents of New Hampshire and make their livings in the media.
We don't want just any Canadian running. Our government is bad enough without adopting their standards.
Great line.
The real source of "change" the current crop of Democratic candidates (and a couple of the Republicans as well) are enthralled with is, in fact, capitalism. Unfortunately that change consists of taking money from those capitalism made wealthy and distributing it to whomever is most likely to reward them with political office.
There is a name for that - two names, actually, "theft" and "pandering" - but to name it is to spoil the game. Hence the euphemisms "hope" and "change" as in "I hope I get to go through that guy's pockets before his change is all gone." If, in fact, it is all gone at that point it is the victim who is blamed for not having sufficient surplus to meet the muggers' need.
And so a hope of a better world based on the erroneous assumption that it isn't theft if the government is doing it and the equally erroneous expectation that the victim is going to pick himself up, brush himself off, and go back to earning something for others to divide. More likely he'll either get smart...or die.
Much as I like, Steyn...just think of the “other guy” who would then be eligible to run...our Liberal meathead governor.
That’s one trade-off among many that I wouldn’t like!
“Both Democrats and Republicans want government to take more from you and decide what’s best for you. That’s the “change” the political class is promoting these days.”
With more than half of Americans receiving some kind of government assistance, who says Communism is dead!
Nothing to prevent him from being Presidential press secretary.
I'm collecting Social Security, but the reality is that the program has been a con from day one. A fraud in which the government has promised us that it was investing the money we paid in and will pay us back with interest. But of course it did not invest in anything other than its own debt, which translates that promise into a pledge that the government will make our children take care of us through SS taxation.Since government bonds are the money supply equivalent of dollars, the use of the Social Security Trust Fund bonds to pay for the Retirement Boom will inflate the money supply just as surely as directly printing the equivalent number of dollar bills would. Which simply means that those bonds - which would be so valuable to you or to me as individuals - are useless for their purported purpose of helping our grandchildren pay for our Social Security checks.
As that chicken gradually comes home to roost in a decade, we will be at risk of having the Democrats reprising the 1970s as they try once again to prove that the ability to set an infinite tax rate is the same as the ability to obtain infinite tax revenue.
Whether it's printing newspapers or dollar bills, liberals think that any printing press is a perpetual motion machine.
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