[luckydevi]

good piece

[secretagent]

Agree.

[Dominic Harr]

In the words of Friedman: "We cannot expect existing businesses to promote legislation that would harm them. It is up to the rest of us to promote the public interest by fostering competition across the board and to recognize that being pro-free enterprise may sometimes require that we be anti-existing business."

Just worth repeating.

[sixmil]

It's about time someone posted an article like this, but it will fall on deaf ears around here.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Excellent piece. This is why Big Business and the Billionaire clubs like Democrats, in a nutshell.

[Moonman62]

George W. Bush is not a movement conservative, as Ronald Reagan was. I doubt seriously if he even knows the names of more than a small handful of conservative intellectuals and has read none of their work. The same can be said of almost all corporate executives. But without some grounding in the intellectual tradition of the conservative movement, it is very easy to assume that the conservative position and the business position are one and the same.

So true, and it should be noted that all of our net job growth for the past few decades has come from small and new businesses. GWB is lucky that his second tax cut ended up being a fairly good one. He's apparently clueless on economic matters, as his economic speeches indicated during the worst of our "recession." I doubt if his luck can hold out for another five years, especially with all the recent government growth.

It should also be noted that Treasury Secretary John Snow came from the Business Roundtable, an exclusive lobby group for only the largest businesses, which routinely endorses big government policies.