Posted on 01/08/2014 2:19:58 AM PST by markomalley
Let’s do an experiment on the differences between free markets and communism. Divide a country in half. Let one half have a free market and the other be communist and see what happens. We can call it KOREA!
That was Pauline Kaehl, the movie critic for the Washington (com)Post.
Need I say more?
The reality is that most of the wealth is the world has been created from what wasn't there before. It is created by digging mines, planting crops, manufacturing goods, assembling systems, and establishing intellectual property. It is created when a business owner hires a worker to perform a job that results in something that is worth more than the sum of all the cost that went into producing it. When that wealth is taken from the owner, through taxation, regulation, distribution, or even outright confiscation, the net wealth in the world decreases, and certainly stops increasing.
If government took all of the wealth in the world, and distributed it equally, it would not only cease to increase, it would fall precipitously.
Ping.
He complains that landlords do not earn their money while calling for guaranteed minimum income.
And he doesn’t seen the hypocrisy in that either.
I was always a conservative, ever since I was old enough to figure out what an abortion was.
When Churchill said this, the Liberal (Whig) Party had been libertarian and the Conservative Party was the party of tradition.
“the government ... produced enough rules and regulations to strangle every business”
Even without government interference, this was a question of cheap labor.
“Now, Obama and his flock of lemmings believe that a college education is required of everyone to even have the chance to flip hamburgers while trade schools and military technical training is not even considered. In fact, working with one’s hands to actually perform a needed trade is frowned upon by today’s young generation.”
In the private sector much of that work (carpentry, masonry, roofing) has gone to illegals; Americans aren’t even considered. Companies won’t hire young Americans while they are ditching older Americans from the workplace.
As far as military technical training, only some of it transfers into civilian life. In wars where they need drivers for convoys more than tech-savvy people (some are needed, but not nearly as many), the military probably couldn’t make good on many of its promises in that area. Nowadays, the military is being scaled back anyway.
Just depends on how you define “freedom” I guess...
leftists DO believe in the “freedom” from having to provide for yourself.
I'd say they believe in central statist planning and redistribution according to their Godless ideology. The state is god, and they are the state. Rules for thee and not for me. My tagline sums it up their world view pretty well.
Ahh, false ingenuousness. How refreshing. Not.
Moonbats seem to think everything was invented ten minutes ago -- sex, lying, false seeming, Robert Redford double-takes.
Just another weary demonstration of the old saw, "red-and-yellow kill a fellow", repurposed from herpetology to politica.
Which is the real point of Communism. It isn't to provide "equality" or any such. It is to provide wealth and status to people whose main skill is political intrigue.
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