Posted on 02/22/2020 9:17:18 AM PST by bitt
Actor Tim Allen used his hit sitcom, Last Man Standing to humorously school Democrat presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren about the dangers of socialism and how capitalism is the “recipe for economic success.”
In the episode, “Baked Sale,” Allen’s Mike Baxter teaches foreign exchange student Jen (Krista Marie Yu) about the wonders of capitalism as the teenager begins running a bake sale to benefit her school geology club. In the series, Baxter is the boss of Outdoor Man, an outdoor supplies store. Allen closes each episode of the Fox show with a video blog (vlog) for his store. In this week’s vlog, Baxter takes a swipe at Sanders and Warren by name, slamming them for their attacks on capitalism.
“Hey, Mike Baxter, for Outdoor Man to talk about one of my favorite passions. No, no, no, not gutting a deer while listening to the Lovin’ Spoonful. I’m talking about capitalism,” Baxter starts out on his vlog. “Now, old Bernie and young Elizabeth tell the folks capitalists are coldhearted, money-grubbing vultures. When you put it that way, you make it sound like a bad thing. But we’re also human beings with a conscience. Conscience. You remember those?”
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neither of them will get it.
But hopefully someone watching will.
Capitalist without basic morals creates Corporatism which is what we have. Thanks to the corrupted godless
It doesn’t mean one disagrees with capitalism even if one thinks there need to be laws to keep it honest..
Or as close to honest as possible.
The Founding Fathers were realists.
The understood unrestrained power’s consequences.
And that is kind of what msft and amzn and goog are heading towards.
Love the show and it’s got great messaging about the values that made America great.
aka ethically illiterate
That’s what is needed, more people explaining that capitalism is NOT a dirty word. It’s what kept your parents from taking all the money you made at your lemonade stand when you were 6 years old.
Every boss I have had in my life has been a good person. I once worked for a man who was hated by his employees, but what they didn’t know is he was hocking almost everything he owned just to make sure no one was laid off and there was money to cover payroll. A lifetime of investments, careful land buys, gone in a few years for people who were too dumb to see what he was doing for them.
That’s why I appreciate Trump so much. He has been up and he has been down and no matter the rough edges some see, I see how soft he is inside (and no, that kind of soft is not a bad thing). Sometimes caring hearts are covered by steel.
Love the show and it’s got great messaging about the values that made America great.
Ditto to that!!
Agree more shows like that are needed.
Most low income Mexicans here in Calif may be pretty dumb.
Why?
Wife worked with a bunch of them who worked assembly for shooting accessories.
Most all the Mexican’s were Dems and voted Dem, even though the Calif Dem Party every year does more and more to prevent folks, especially lower income folks, from being able to buy firearms. Sort of voting their jobs away.
Nice folks when you get to know them, but able to see very far down the road?
Nope....but few were deep thinkers.
Absorbers of the MSM.
Socialism exists through coercion. Capitalism thrives by voluntary participation.
Absorbers of the MSM.
Not deep thinkers
They are the humanist which is the religion based around collectivism.
Collectivism's moral base is the general "PublicMind" at any given time. It blows around based on public perception of the moment. Collectivism can not have natural rights.
As TomKat puts it. They're ethically illiterate.
I don’t like the word capitalism, it’s Marx’s term.
I prefer Free Enterprise in line with Classical Liberalism and Americanism.
An even beter example is actually in the article.
“”Last Man Standing continues to earn top ratings for Fox Television after being booted from ABC in 2017. Fox picked up the canceled series and continued it in a rare example of a series jumping from one network to another.””
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ABC went woketard and now FOX is making a truckload of money.
Free. Enterprise.
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Yep - watched it and he did a great job with it.
LOVE this show!!!
The UK has Bernie’s style of Medicare for All for 71 years.
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