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To: Leisler
The Left is wilfully blind to the enormous contributions that capitalism has made to democracy and individualism. Over the past two centuries capitalism has raised the standard of living and enhanced the health and life expectancy for untold millions in the West and elsewhere. It has stimulated new ideas and fostered free speech.

When they call for the redistribution of wealth, leftists are endorsing an authoritarian system that, wherever it has been tried, has resulted in economic stagnation and a sapping of cultural energy. Such concentration of power in the State creates its own tyrannical master class. Without the profit motive, few are inclined to work for long. The play of the market, rather than government engineering, is more reliable for long-term job creation. When jobs are varied and plentiful, ethnic and racial tensions diminish.

Translation: the left was wrong.

8 posted on 08/20/2002 8:24:13 AM PDT by Taliesan
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To: Taliesan
Without the profit motive, few are inclined to work for long

I hear her next article is about the world being round instead of flat.

32 posted on 08/21/2002 12:50:36 AM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Taliesan
Re your post #8 - My conclusion as well.
39 posted on 09/03/2002 2:42:49 AM PDT by summer
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To: Taliesan
Re your post #8 - My conclusion as well.
40 posted on 09/03/2002 2:44:12 AM PDT by summer
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