I Want a President Who Can Teach Us to Accept Capitalism

American Thinker ^ | May 4, 2016 | Christopher Chantrill

[expat_panama]

In last week’s foreign policy speech Donald Trump had this to say about jobs:

NAFTA, as an example, has been a total disaster for the U.S. and has emptied our states of our manufacturing and our jobs. Never again. Only the reverse will happen. We will keep our jobs and bring in new ones. Their [sic] will be consequences for companies that leave the U.S. only to exploit it later.

Okay, I get it: you are running for president, Mr. Trump, and I get that you can’t say that, of course, NAFTA has hurt some people, because after all capitalism is creative destruction, but on balance NAFTA has benefited...

...Thomas Piketty... ...the stupid point that the return on capital is greater than the growth rate. Of course it is. You can make money on lending money to another guy so he can buy a diamond for his mistress, and it does nothing for growth.

Capitalism is not about accumulating gold coins in a sack by stealing bread from the poor...

...we have... ...popularizers, activists, and politicians that cruelly scratch the wounds of the afflicted. They marinate them in their tribal hatreds, trap them in dependency, tax and their wages and then play the Lady Bountiful giving it back years later, and teach them to hate the culture that has raised them, or will raise their children, out of Malthusian oblivion.

...what made America great was that for a season, the elite lacked the power to “keep our jobs” against some nobody with a crazy idea to demolish the status quo and surprise the world with an unlooked for invention, a trade-tested betterment, and the result was the Great Enrichment of the last 200 years.

And it really is about time that presidential candidates could dare to tell us that.

[expat_panama]

well-fed

Ah, you must be one of those elite 0.01% upper class trade deficiters.  I just found out that the middle class was totally destroyed back in '92 w/ NAFTA.  Hey, I just figured out what our solution is:

[Arlis]

One of Marxism’s primary rules: change the meaning of words to hide what’s really going on........ i.e., lie.

Nothing new here.

It’s at Hillary’s core - and Obama’s......a key method for achieving their goals: lie. “Affordable Healthcare Act” ! Ha! “Equal Opportunity” Ha!

And WHO did Jesus say was the “father of lies”?????????

“You (Hillary, Obama - most Democrats) are of your father - the devil.”

[Arlis]

Oh, and, like Marxism, Hillary, Obama - the enemy came to lie, kill, steal, and destroy.....

which is exactly what Marxism and Democratic policy does......kills and destroys.........

[expat_panama]

You and I may be scorned but imho we need to face the reality that while there are a lot of very good people on that side, much of the focus of the left has become evil --i.e. satanic.

mho

[Arlis]

Agree. & never did we dream it would be so blatant.

Liberalism, Progressivism, Marxism are all a passionate religion - of God’s & our enemy. The good news is, in the long haul - he is defeated - he WAS defeated at the cross!