I would have to agree, the love of money is the root of all evil and socialism is evil.
Socialism looks good on paper, but then you add people and it doesn’t work. Why? Jeremiah 17:9.
I agree with most of his article but I don’t see “capitalism”, “product” or “consumer” as ugly words. They describe what is true. How can truth be ugly?
I can't find a source for that, hence the IIRC.
On another point, it is my personal belief the socialism is the product of the basic human fear of life. For example, people who favor socialism/collectivism are like animals who fear the excitement and risk taking of life so much that they would rather live in a zoo.
Socialist leaders are those who would take advantage of that innate fear to become wealthy zoo keepers.
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I agree with most of his article but I don’t see “capitalism”, “product” or “consumer” as ugly words. They describe what is true. How can truth be ugly?
(Since I can’t edit I’ll have to add it to a new post)
Like it or not liberals, the bible is the foundation of our society. We are Judeo-Christian from the first words spoken at Plymouth rock to the Constitution itself. The bible describes a free capitalistic society. When we lose the biblical basis and guidelines for our behavior then we fall into consumerism (”more more more I want more!!”) and corporatism (”I don’t care what happens to anyone else, I want my stock to go up”).
It's as if the professor was claiming we should do this it was just part of the natural progression. More money means more free help and the cycle repeats till, before you can realize it, we have become a socialist state. Of course, there are many who WANT this to happen but in the end it happens as a matter of course. Just look at the "Great Society".
Even in capitalism there is a dichotomy. We strove to get things to the point where we could have more leisure time and now that people are enjoying the leisure time the same capitalists decry that as sloth.
I always believed that the true coporatists were of the mind that "I want my leisure time but I want YOU to work hard for my leisure time". Now that more people have become wealthy and can have their time off those corporatists are bemoaning the fact that those people are not producing enough.
Capitalism, like socialism, never takes into account human nature. Capitalism can be overcome with greed and avarice while socialism kills the human spirit. A truly capitalist society would kill just as many people as socialism human nature being what it is.
Capitalism mixed with charity (socialism?) is the only way we can have a truly civil society. We cannot have the dog eat dog of true capitalism or the master feeding dog of true socialism - either would kill the human spirit.
Capitalism is an example of an insidious change in word usage. America was founded on the principle of Free Enterprise. Free Enterprise is a system where good people produce and deliver a product or service that other people either need or want in a society that encourages the freedom to create and market without undue restrictions. That type of system rewards the producer both by God and man and generates inovation. Anyone who abuses that type of system is also punished by God and man in that the product or service will be rejected by consumers and will be free to fail. When Government interferes the free enterprise system is corrupted.
Criminals are the root of all evil. Identify the liar, the anti-individual criminal.
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