Posted on 08/12/2009 8:31:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
I expect the big Insco’s expect the gummit to hire out the execution of Obamacare to them. Then Obama will crow about how the gummit just saved big bucks in not hiring a megagaggle of public servants.
The Joker’s thugs scare them.
Stoessel does not answer the conundrum though, Conservatism supposedly supports Open Markets/Free Trade, yet the benenficiaries of that system are not bound by those principles and simply jump into bed with Statists who are anything but in favor of Open Markets.
So what are we to support? What is the best philosophy now that Corporatism has shown they lack any compunction when it comes to Socializing the American Economy?
Frank Rich. Why does that name sound familiar?
Francine B-tch should go back to reviewing Broadway Musicals. Her political writings are tho thilly...
Corporations and Government both have one thing in common. Both hate competition, and both will use each other to keep competitors out.
Big Business thinks that it’s going to realize cost savings and the Unions think they are going to secure the health care savings in increased gross income.
Corporatism supports ‘Value Capture’ (what we have now) a method of ‘capturing’ value without exchange. (Big Corp cannot exist without Big Govt protecting them from the ‘little guy’ or competitors and mandating you give up ‘value’ without receiving ‘value’ in exchange. )
Free Markets support ‘Vaule Creation’... Exchange of ‘values’, which benefits both parties, creating ‘wealth’.
Are we too far gone? Watch small businesses. They are the canary in the coal mine.
This guy belongs in the U.S. Senate, where ABC can never censor his opinions.
This is what I’ve been trying to tell friends, acquaintances etc ... big business LOVES REGULATION. What they fear most is open free competition.
They will not grasp that.
You have to give credit to Stossel for being an honest libertarian.
The whole idea that "big business" is against "Big Government" is silly. Big Business if FOR anything that they can use to make more money, or to ensure their survival. Really, the only difference between Big Government and Big Business, is that I can simply stop supporting Big Business by withholding my dollar, Big Government gives you NO SUCH OPTION.
He is indeed
big business LOVES REGULATION
BINGO! I heard a big corporate CEO say that very thing at a meeting. Regulations suppress competition and deepen their moat. Anyone who wants to challenge them has so many start up costs that it makes such a challenge very prohibitve
Jonah Goldberg:
First, one needs to remember that the New Deal was not the assault on big business that its fans claim. FDR may have talked a good game about going after “economic royalists,” and he did love confiscatory personal income taxes. But he and his Brain Trust also loved cartels, big businesses, and other “big units” of society. The notion that big business and big government are at war with one another is one of the great enduring myths of the 20th century. The truth is that ever since Teddy Roosevelt abandoned his love of trust-busting, progressives have liked big businesses big, really big. The bigger the business, the more reliable the partner for big government.
That’s why any huge corporation that plays ball on health care, or “green jobs,” or countless other initiatives, is hailed as a “forward-thinking” or “progressive” company. Companies such as GE, which stands to make billions from Obama’s energy proposals, are vital sidekicks in the new era of public-private partnerships. Why is Obama working tirelessly to save Detroit automakers? Because GM is a wonderful poster boy for peddling nationalized health care, and UAW is an indispensable cog in the Democratic Party.
Hillary Clinton’s health-care plan required working with large corporations and other firms. It was little guys for whom she had nothing but contempt. When warned her plan would crush smaller businesses, she shrugged, “I can’t go out and save every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America.”
Again, this is hardly a new story. Chiefly under the auspices of the National Recovery Administration, the New Dealers sought to create huge cartels and trade associations that could work side by side with economic planners. Small and independent firms, from movie theaters to dry cleaners to poultry distributors, were hounded and harassed by a government determined to “rationalize” the economy by sweeping away all those pesky-but-innovative competitors. Would Barney Frank rather work with one giant Fannie Mae that will always take his phone calls and do his bidding, or a thousand smaller firms that would need to be herded like cats? I think we already know the answer.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTM3ZmI0MDA2ZjM5OWRkZDk5N2Y1Njk3NDkzZmE1NDY=
F.A. Hayek dedicated his famous little book to “The Socialists of all Parties” for a good reason.
We are tripping down the hill to his predicted land of tyranny.
The recent high volume resistance directed at our Congress-clowns is all well and good but much too late.
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