Posted on 12/21/2013 2:29:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
“Elon Musk” sounds like the kind of perfume that accidentally attracts stray dogs to you.
How is that blind to the label? Government funding and subsidizing corporations is indeed liberal/fascist/socialist in my book.
Why does Elon Musk cater to rich people? To quote Willie Sutton, “that’s where the money is.”
Dear Mr. Bearman,
If a Tesla roadster sold for $ 45.00, how long do
you think he would stay in business?
Would he make it up in volume??
Economic morons will be the death of us.
Or deliberately does. :=)
It’s “fascist” only in the sense that intervening in the economy and using ostensibly “private” companies as agents of the government was one thing Fascist governments did. It’s also something a lot of non-Fascists governments have done.
Certainly this is non-conservative, since economic conservatism, as commonly understood, holds that the free choice of consumers, independent of government manipulation, should determine the success or failure of products or companies.
Good point.
So let’s see, here we are on freerepublic.com, complaining about someone who doesn’t cater to poor people...
The bigger point, though, is that lots of times technology is more expensive early in the adoption cycle. Only wealthy folks could afford the first Fords for instance...
Musk is an entrepreneurial genius, and one of the few in these times that compares to Ford and Edison...
bump
That makes one if us who thinks so. He's an ultraradical left winger who uses government money to perpetuate Ponzi schemes.
Are you sure? Maybe give that another read ...
Okay, that was my worst mistype ever. And I am a terrible typer.
What you fail to understand is he uses government to subsidize the downside/risk of his businesses while his high end clients and he get the upside.
I could care a less who he caters to. Don’t demand money from me to do it through government extortion.
If he’s such a brilliant businessman he shouldn’t need government to make his business model work.
LOL! We knew what you meant.
exactly
Manure-spreading Musk PR hacks work FR for sure, but he’s hardly different from seat belt or air bag manufacturers, or alternative-fuel producers, or any of many other businesses whose markets are enhanced by government mandates.
It’s really quite simple; new world order is in full control, most rich folks are either knowingly or unknowingly fully participating in it.
New world order is like the most vicious, ruthless, crazy, evil, gangster-type mentality.
NWO calls the shots for government, which serves NWO.
Therefore...
They view paying taxes as NOT for them, but for the “little people”.
NWO views federal dollars as THEIRS for the taking. They take from the government, they don’t give to it. And government goes and takes from the sheeple.
It’s like every payday a guy shows up when you cash your check, and he robs you of 20% or 30% of it.
No matter HOW LITTLE you make, even if it’s $10k per year or less. Cuz your still payin’ employment taxes. That’s money TO the gubmint.
NWO views everyone who is not criminal and rich as idiots, saps, weaklings, not worthy of living, etc.
NWO RUNS almost ALL the do-gooder charitable foundations, the big Church denominations, unions, socialist/communist movements, etc. They are all simply a big catch-all trick to suck all the “little people” in so they think they are “opposing” “the rich”.
Instead, all those organizations corral these sheeple down the same path - they all support the candidates the organizations specifiy, the causes they specify, etc.
It’s so obvious only a moron could not see it - but it’s tricky and subtle. I only started to get it recently.
The “evil rich” are behind ALL the global warming, 99%, drug legalization, healthcare for all, etc., movements.
Hello sheeple, you’re not opposing the evil rich, you’re stepping right in line to help them enslave you.
Sheeple are enslaved because they have been tricked.
If you have any debt at all you’re enslaved. If you have one penny invested in Wall Street you’re enslaved. If you have cash in the bank you’re enslaved. If you pay taxes you’re enslaved. Etc.
Obviously, it’s impossible to avoid at this point.
But as sheeple wake up and smell the coffee, they can start taking off their chains by turning to God instead of rejecting him, gaining personal net worth, start exerting influence in society.
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