Actually most Americans are entrepreneurs but have been beaten into submission by a crushing load or regulation and taxation. This is compounded by the fact that we face unfair competition from corporate cronies who are often propped up by our tax dollars.
You would think that, in an era of collapsing employment rates, someone could make the case for employers.
I wonder if, in the long view, this won’t be to modern politics what the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 was in that era. A divisive issue, where the new upstarts (the Republican party then, and the Tea Party now) - oppose the entrenched powers but because they are on the right side of the issue, prevail in the end. If the parallel holds, perhaps this division will serve to drive the discussion in the 2014 and 2016 elections, just as the Lincoln-Douglas debates over slavery vs. choice resulted in the election of Lincoln in 1860.
Cantor is full of it. The GOP sold out a long time ago to corporate America.
“What was wildly wonderful for Corporate America was hell on Middle America. But the Republican Party had made its choice. It had sold its soul to the multinationals. And as it went along with NAFTA, GATT, fast track and mass immigration, to appease Corporate America, it lost Middle America.” [Pat Buchanan]
I think of my great great grandfather who made furniture for himself and to sell during the long cold winter nights.
He owned the land, he cut the trees, he sawed the lumber, made wooden furniture, and sold the product all without any interference from government.
Imagine the imposed costs of trying to do the same today.
the left is in the process (and has been for quite a while now) of abandoning the union members and lower class whites.
There is an opportunity here for the Republican party to grab those voters.
That’s an epiphany that’s been a long time coming in the GOP. Now if the talking heads on the Right would figure this out and start talking like paychecks are more important than dividends and stock values to most Americans, we might be able to swing some voters.”We shouldn’t miss the chance to talk to these people,” Cantor continued, according to the source, “which is why we will present and pass our plans to relieve the middle class squeeze.”
That’s a great soundbite. The real issue is the extent to which the existence of paychecks depends on dividends and stock values. Or said differently, the absence of dividends and stock values presages the absence of paychecks. Democrats like to pretend that businesses can just arbitrarily “give America a raise” without negative side effects. In reality such a process implies first the absence of dividends, then the decline in stock values, then the end of paychecks. That is why it makes sense to concern yourself with the effect of regulations on dividends.Of course there is also the small matter of how it is possible to provide for future retirement, or exist in retirement, if there is no benefit to savings and investment. A war on the profit in investment is a war on the prospect of future profit in investment - and, ultimately, a war on hope. It’s why the New Deal exacerbated the Depression, which lasted until the start of WWII caused FDR to yield on “Dr. New Deal” in favor of “Dr. Win-the-war” - which happened long before Pearl Harbor.
Dr. Win-the-war began initially with the British doing things like commissioning the design/manufacture of the P-51A and any other armaments they could buy in America, but accelerated after the Fall of France in May 1940, when the British sent plans for the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine which became the in-line design for front-line fighter use by America, the Whittle jet engine, the cavity magnetron radar tube, and everything else they hoped to get produced in America. FDR recruited William Knudsen, who had built Chevrolet from an also-ran to the equal of Ford, and he managed the 18-month transition to a wartime economy, which entailed infrastructure buildup and machine tool production.
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“Entrepreneurs?” Many people would make useful products if not for the anti-competition regulations, and the laws that divide and destroy families.
Eric Cantor may have just tapped the “money spot” that may lead to a political “boom”.
When Republicans talk, they tend to reach small business owners because those small business owners know Conservative and liberal policies affect them through first hand experience. And unless you have that experience, you are going to be just another person looking for a way to make money, period. So while the job providers have all the insider know how, the workers for them do not (nor may not care). This places workers in a strange position because in their ignorance, and their will to make money, they will gravitate towards anyone who they think will make them more money. This is where class warfare gets “populism” and people feel as though they are going to get something at the expense of “the greedy.”
What I find occurring on a daily basis is that many young people who need jobs are having tremendous difficulty right now trying to find a good one because of their state of mind, but they don’t realize that their state of mind is the root cause of their problems.
For example, some of my friends who voted for Barack Obama expected a lot from him. But the problem is, he is a socialist. Not realizing what that is, they expected him to help the economy and award them jobs. But no, that is capitalism, so in essence you have a population of people who are voting for socialists, and ideally hate capitalism, but subconsciously know (by simply living in America) that they need capitalism (not realizing that this is so), and are tremendously upset when they pursue capitalism.
And if you want your own place, want to produce your own income, and start a family, then those ambitions alone qualify you as a Capitalist.
It is too unfortunate that an entire population of people have been conditioned to accept the Marxist’s definition of capitalism. This is how the mainstream views it, because that perspective is the most common and communicated.
most Americans are not homosexual either, but they get focused on a lot
Eric Cantor wants illegals to work in banks, armored trucks and gain clearance to use explosives at mines.
“They’ll be able to immediately apply for much better jobs than they currently have,” Sessions warned of illegal immigrants set to join the pathway to citizenship. “Maybe they were working at a restaurant part time. Now they’re going to be truck drivers, heavy-equipment operators competing at the factories and plants and we’ve got an unemployment rate that’s very high.”