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Without freedom, there is no such thing as morality, but freedom also abets morality whereas the welfare state sponsors immorality.

Without freedom, there is no such thing as morality

But there IS excerpting your "writing" for free on Free Republic.

You didn't build that. For real.

How many hits are projected from this pimpage?

Capitalists need to do two things immediately:

1) Create a conceptual separation between “capitalism” and it’s cancerous unchecked evolution into “monopolism”.

2) Insist stridently and effectively that the malfeasant b@startds who caused the collapse of the world economy 3 years ago start doing time in the Clank Hotel.

The absence of a demand for indictments is disgusting and obviates any breast beating about ethics and morality.

Thank you for posting! If all freedom-loving, constitutionally literate citizens who have studied the writings of the Founders and Framers of our Constitution would post and share their findings about their nation's ideas of liberty, simply to be sharing them, then perhaps future generations might be able to inherit what all of us inherited.

For instance, the attacks on "capitalism" sometimes come from those who infer or downright assert that the idea is somehow incompatible with Christianity. The claim sometimes is used to justify the ideas of coercive "redistribution" by some government entity of the wages of private citizens.

Some questions might be pertinent and helpful to a thoughtful discussion on that point:

Is liberty of imperfect individuals in a society more compatible with Christianity? - OR

Is coercive control by imperfect individuals in government over all other imperfect individuals in a society more compatible with Christianity?

Christian teachings encourage individual benevolence, meekness, etc. Where in those teachings is use of coercive power over the lives of others encouraged?

Do imperfect individuals who gain coercive power by election to posts in government somehow become more virtuous and wise than likewise imperfect individuals in the society?

Are there examples in American history where the general welfare of the society benefitted by applying the principles of so-called "government" control of the means of production and distribution?

A reading of Governor Bradford's diary of the experience of the Jamestown Colony might be instructive here.

America's Founders preferred liberty for individuals, and their principles made America a desired destination for millions for over 200 years.

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39

"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:122