Posted on 09/19/2010 9:54:59 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
This is a falsehood. True Capitalism is driven by the virtue of providing for your Spouse & children and creating a better life for them. Gay marriage is certainly a threat because it is contrary to the Natural Law upon which Capitalism relies upon.
Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership. Gay marriage is not a threat to the aforementioned . . . just sayin’.
Private ownership includes possessions by Men married to Women who by Natural Law have a special relationship between them whereas they are treated as one entity. A male/male or female/female bond can never have that same special relationship that is why approving of such abhorrent relationships and laws threaten civilized society upon which Capitalism requires.
Capitalism is not threatened by the fact that I am married to my wife, or I am living with my girlfriend. I enjoy a “special relationship” in the eyes of the law in the former, but (generally) not in the latter.
Capitalism is only not threatened so long as you pay entirely for your relationships and your actions. In an ideal world, and in an ideal capitalism, you would be correct. However, we do not live in an ideal capitalism. We don’t even live in true capitalism. There are some tax refunds which are based on marital status and/or number of children had, these are attempts at incentivizing people to stay married and not get divorced, or do whatever can result in divorce (often, but not always, infidelity.) These cannot do the entire job of keeping families together, but they’re attempts. If you were to ask me about taxes, I think the Flat Tax idea is the way to go.
I live in Manhattan (East Side) in NY14 (Maloney) and a stone’s throw from NY15 (Rangel). I’ve adopted NY20 as my race to donate and volunteer in order to remove a so-called “Blue Dog” conservative-talking liberal-voting nightmare (Murphy) from elected office. Nope, I’m not the candidate.
I’m heading up there tomorrow afternoon to work the phone bank for a few evenings. I’ll mention your comment to Chris - just because we know what we’re doing doesn’t mean everyone else does! Thanks.
No. Santelli truly deserves all the initial credit. His rant proceeded the town hall rallies by several months.
Thanks. I could not remember is he preceeded the Town Halls.
Please. I'm all for God, country and family, really I am but that hasn't a thing to do with what makes capitalism work, or makes it better as an economic model than any other.
"Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution and industry are privately owned and operated for a private profit; decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments are made by private actors in the market rather than by central planning by the government; profit is distributed to owners who invest in businesses, and wages are paid to workers employed by businesses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
An individual being driven by his own personal desire to gain wealth (via the capitalistic model) is not impacted in any way by his having a family or by virtue of him being a “good” person.
There are no different outcomes in the following of the rules of capitalism if one is a selfish single individual or a happily married God fearing family man.
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