Posted on 08/21/2009 11:45:52 PM PDT by Libloather
Why is the battle for greed winning over the battle for USA?
How can there be a united states of american citizens if only handful hold power over everything we learn, read, see,...the laws by which we must abide?
I swear,...it's like this whole nation has turned into a century old coal-mining town where,...us common folks are given the means merely to give back to the company that pays for our labors and takes all the money OUTSIDE our own resources. Oh,...*shrug*,...I forgot that, those companies still do that to this day: steal the labor, TAKE AND PROFIT off the resources. They don't just STEAL from Africa,...they do it here, too!!!! (which is why they SWEAR they do NOT discriminate *lol*).
Now, it is worse. Since we demanded equal pay for work, the corporations turned to other slave-labor-willing nations, leaving us and our nation behind. When are these corporations going to be expected to "sacrifice" as we do for our nation?
Why aren't these corporations called, "traitors" and destroyed for "treason"?
Why?
“How can there be a united states of American citizens if only handful hold power over everything we learn, read, see,...the laws by which we must abide?”
Actually, this tells me all I need to know... The government controls way too much of our capability to learn, read, or run a business. Yes, they also passed way too many stupid laws that prohibit us from making an honest living.
So yes, part of what he says is true...
The choice is voluntary agreement to compensation, or enslavement. When people rail against profit, you know that they really support slavery, your slavery.
When government was small unions filled the gap. Today I am not sure what will work.
So what are we told by the Left about what will happen when a Wal Mart moves into an area? The Left claims that Evil Wal Mart will cut prices, drive the Mom and Pops out of business, and then, once the competition is gone, they will have their way with us. We will have no choice on price, no choice on what goods are available. Both those who work there and those who shop will be at the mercy of one all-encompassing evil corporate giant.
But suddenly, when this theory is applied to our health care (the Public Option comes in to town, and undercuts the competition) we are told this will lead to a new age of freedom, choice, and improved service for all.
“How can there be a united states of american citizens if only handful hold power over everything we learn, read, see,...the laws by which we must abide?”
I would like to ask this simpleton the following: Why does he think there are so many lobbyists in washington?
I’m sure the correct answer - i.e. that’s where the power is - won’t come to him.
The other thing that won’t occur to him, is that giving Washington even more power will not reduce the amount of lobbying, instead, together with its more shady brother, corruption, will increase significantly.
If you want to decrease influence peddling and political and economic corruption, diffuse the power, which is what the framers, in their unusual wisdom, fully understood.
Common Sense will never enter that closed mind.
Morals should never get in the way of profit. Nor should worthless human lives....
illogical slogs.
Why is greed winning? Greed more experience, a deeper bullpen and more hitters.
Profit is part of human nature. Trying to eliminate it is like repealing the law of gravity. I don’t get these self-hating humans. What’s the alternative?
.The Issue of Greed
Liberal critics of capitalism often attack it for encouraging greed. The truth, however, is that the mechanism of the market actually neutralizes greed as it forces people to find ways of serving the needs of those with whom they wish to exchange.
As long as our rights are protected (a basic precondition of market exchanges), the greed of others cannot harm us.
As long as greedy people are prohibited from introducing force, fraud, and theft into the exchange process and as long as these persons cannot secure special privileges from the state under interventionist or socialist arrangements, their greed must be channeled into the discovery of products or services for which people are willing to trade.
Every person in a market economy has to be other-directed. The market is one area of life where concern for the other person is required.
The market, therefore, does not pander to greed. Rather, it is a mechanism that allows natural human desires to be satisfied in nonviolent ways.
Much more at: In Defense of Capitalism: Debunking the Religious Left
As is true with our Republic, Capitalism depends on moral principles to guide it, and the greatest shortcomings come about when immoral governments and immoral traders collude.
She doesn't slam Republicans or Democrats in it, and does not really slam anyone other than models of Greed. I recommend anyone thinking of this look at it:
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