Posted on 12/20/2009 10:56:47 PM PST by Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]
Just about everybody is in some way or another acquainted with the classic Charles Dickens story “A Christmas Carol”. A Christmas Carol was released in 1843 and it was essentially a story about the coldness of the human heart and the greed affiliated with it. The story’s character, Ebenezer Scrooge is so greedy and yet so wealthy, that he holds contempt for those who need money for charity, those who need money to survive, and those who want to spend money on gifts for other people. To Scrooge, everybody is more or less a being of consumption in the sense that people keep depleting money and resources. In that his love for people runs cold, and the visits by the three spirits reveal this to him.
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In the name of ‘free trade’ and ‘capitalism’, US sovereignty, & national security have been sacrificed to open borders needed for the unimpeded movement of goods and natural persons, i.e. units of labor.
US business (not global corporations) and US workers have been placed at a severe disadvantage by onerous taxes, extreme environmental regulations, and political correctness.
Capitalism has morphed into a form of corporatism / fascism running under the Ferengi rules of Acquisition.
The economic destruction of the US and its middle class did not start last November with the election of Zero. It has been going on for a long time. The bulk of our ‘political class’ are well paid enablers.
We have forgotten what I call the dark side of human nature, what Bastiat refers to as the ‘common tendency’ of ‘mankind’ to ‘live and prosper at the expense of others’.
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