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To: Bishop_Malachi
Corporations as well as individuals are free. They don't have to be "loyal", just make a profit and in doing so benefits all without realizing it (Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" in his book The Wealth of Nations).

That's what are country's is all about. Freedom. The Free Market is the goose that laid the golden egg and made America the wealthiest and mightiest nation in the world. And the Left hates it.

Look at the relationship between Big Tech and politicans.

Right, and the Left wants you to focus on Big Tech, not criminal Big Government which is constitutionally forbidden from taking bribes which is what all this "subsidy" and "lobby" is all about.

Free Enterprise will take free money and take whatever advantages are given to them. They'd be stupid not to. And individuals and companies are free from constitutional limitations. ONLY the feds are restricted. The Left doesn't want you to know that.

The only entity that is NOT free is the Federal Government, greatly limited by the Constitution which created the feds which now are mostly unconstitutional and, thus, mostly engaged in tyranny.

Wake up and recognize who the REAL enemy is my FRiend. It is not Free Enterprise, it is the tyranny of the now basically totalitarian Federal Government.

9 posted on 02/03/2021 3:59:46 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N
Corporations as well as individuals are free. They don't have to be "loyal", just make a profit and in doing so benefits all without realizing it

Who is "all"? People in China? Or America?

10 posted on 02/03/2021 4:00:38 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jim W N

You say that corporation as well as individuals are free. You then proceed to say that corporations do not have to be loyal. Do individuals have to be loyal? Do individuals who seek to make a profit benefit all without realizing it ALL THE TIME? Does the US defense contractor who sells its secrets to China or Iran get pass? Does someone who decides to start a child pornography business get a pass because they are “creating new jobs” and “lowering unemployment”?

I use these examples to prove a point no person (and no business) operates in a vacuum (a.k.a. independant of other moral considerations). If one gives businesses a pass to do what ever they want under the delusion that their profit-seeking will broadly benefit all, then they are proceeding under a short-sighted, cult-like mentality.

There is no doubt that a market oriented economy is superior to a command economy, but that is a far cry from letting business RULE and do whatever they want under the assumption that everyone is always better off no matter what the business does.

If recent years have taught us anything, it is NOT that government is the enemy, but rather government under the control of the wrong people is the enemy. Trump’s protectionist policies (including the Wall to prevent illegal immigrations) are government policies. Those policies are certainly not “leaving things to the free market”. It would be different if these businesses respected US sovereignty, workers, political speech, and traditional values....but they don’t. Are we gonna sell our souls to the market so that we can get the next generation iphone? A better processed, frozen dinner? A softer pair of socks?


12 posted on 02/04/2021 5:31:17 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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