19th century view of the world in which everyone is either a “rich” Robber Baron capitalist or a “worker” in some grimy factory living hand-to-mouth.
The US economy could compete in the world and provide opportunity for its people if the liberals would stop strangling it to death.
Government, at all levels, sucks up 45% of GDP.
The liberals demand that we pay $400 billion every year to foreign countries for energy, instead of using nuclear power and domestic oil & gas and coal. This is draining us of our national wealth.
They have imported 30+ million low-skilled, low-educated foreign nationals costing us more than $100 billion a year, tens of billion in outbound remittances, and pulling down wages for Americans by uncountable billions of dollars.
Unions, backed by the power of the government, demand levels of benefits that bankrupt their companies, and then get the federal government to cover it over with taxpayer money.
Taxes crush American businesses, and then the federal government complains that they aren’t hiring more workers. Just the cost of complying with the tax code wastes billions and billions of dollars.
Regulations hamstring businesses and smother the native spirit of invention and entrepreneurship that once made America the most prosperous land in the world.
It is the liberals who are crushing America’s economy.
But if they can successfully demonize businessmen as “Robber Barons,” perhaps they can convince Americans to hand over that final measure of total power to the government - and end liberty and prosperity forever.
Thank you.
Lefties think they can just keep taking more and more of productive peoples earnings without significant consequence to wealth production.
The fact is they’ve exceeded tipping point with the yoke around the neck of everyone willing to work between taxes, regulation, endless environmental insanity and not in my backyard.
We were a “can do” people.
Not anymore.
“19th century view of the world in which everyone is either a “rich” Robber Baron capitalist or a “worker” in some grimy factory living hand-to-mouth”
You’re absolutely right. This is a pathetic article by someone with a Political Science 101 insight worthy of Barak Obama. The world he’s talking about ended in the 70’s when the smoke stack industry coalition of decadent “economic elites” and the old Labor unions could no longer compete with the Japanese auto industry, and the American steel industry fell behind Japan and much of Europe technologically.
The next industrial revolution started in California of all places, with the invention of the microprocessor in the early 70’, followed by the development of personal computers, and the biotech industry in the 80’s. These industries catapulted the US way ahead of that of a resurgent Europe by the 1980’s.
Why we couldn’t sustain our techological preeminence and are now facing an economic decline that lead is a complex issue. But I think it has a lot to do with our silly educational system and general cultural decline along with the debilitating factors you discussed.
One thing is for sure. Our decline has nothing to do with “Robber Barons” of the kind that produced greatest transformation living standards in human history more the than 100 years ago and almost did it again 30 years ago.