Posted on 03/07/2011 5:53:56 AM PST by wita
Has the scent of anti-american globalist, but who am I to judge? /sarc
> stop hiding behind the walls of the places we were
> accidentally born and start thinking about the GLOBAL
> economy
Maybe you were accidentally born in the U.S, but my parents deliberately left a despotic socialist totalitarian state to come to this country, where their children could be born free.
What a spoiled, pampered, myopic brat the article’s author is!
“context takes work. Markets exist only in the presence of sensible regulations designed by smart people who have the incredibly difficult task of designing rules that guide the individual choices of billions of economic actors in useful directions. I don’t pretend that is a simple thing to do, but I reject categorically Republican willful refusal to even try.”
In other words, to have a “responsible” media and a “responsible” economy, we the peasants and rabble need the superior intellect of progressives to train a generation in the “rules” of acceptable speech and “acceptab;e” welath redistribution.
Bushitler=good. obamafascist=bad.
Reparations=good. Unearned income= bad.
worker salaries=good. owner profits= bad.
democrat=good. republican=bad
Typical leftie. He conflates “government” with “culture”. This is the subject of much of my (forthcoming, God willing) book “Conservatism for Lefties”.
The reason that America is not Somalia is that it was founded by British Christians and not African Muslims. Somalia does have a government; it just doesn’t work. And the reason that it doesn’t work is that Somali culture doesn’t want it to work.
Americans can survive without government because we have a culture (or did, it is rapidly fading) that respects individuals and rights.
I much prefer a culture of rights and individuals without government than a government without a culture of rights and individuals.
"It’s a weird concept, given that Capitalism is replete with restrictions on freedom. I’m not free to borrow my neighbor’s car without asking,"
apparently he does not know that's called STEALING (maybe we all own the car in his socialist utopia)
Somalia is not a capitalist paradise because THERE ARE BAD GUYS IN CHARGE - no one in his right mind would start a business there
Appears the voting is unanimous.
Bump for later.
Absence of government isn’t economic nirvana. It’s Somalia. I sometimes wonder if today’s Republican party understands that.
Such a statement indicates a severe lack of awareness of economics, or the republican party.
“start thinking about the GLOBAL economy”
Yeah, it’s coming, we’ve been told, for millenia we’ve been warned to watch for it as a sign. There’s also a one world religion coming as well, and we see the roots of that as well in Environmental Humanism.
This is the subject of much of my (forthcoming, God willing) book “Conservatism for Lefties”.
Is this a followup to your widely successful book
“Color for the Blind”?
John Carroll seems to have missed the second grade. And the third. And - - - but why bother? He’s a Liberal/Progressive and can’t hold a conversation.
Does pretty well on the one sided rant. Not sure how many subjects he hit on but he very curiously ignored the one he claimed the article was about.
Agree this person’s thinking IS dangerously stupid. This is what comes of dropping Traditional Liberal Education, ala Hillsdale, for whatever it is we teach in school these days.
Nobody believes that “freedom” is the responsibility nor the goal of the US system of law. Our laws are based on the concept that government is to insure the rights to property. Additionally, government is not to do certain things. Government is not to restrict our religious beliefs (as opposed to acts: violent jihad is not a tolerable religious act, though one is free to believe so in this Nation), infringe on the rights of citizens to bear arms, to speak publically against the acts of the government and government officials, or to freely associate.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with borrowing a neighbor’s property without consent. It has to do with Constitutional rights to free speech and free association. This person is either purposely associating these two ideas to maliciously deceive his audience, or is supporting a new concept of “freedom” that is equivalent to George Orwell’s Big Brother.
The NappyOne
But I am free to take my own car without asking. The idea of the left is to restrict my use of my car to protect someone else's car.
The man is a statist capitalist of the worst kind. We don’t need regulators, the free market will take care of things by itself. Build it and they will come.
It’s nice to see that you didn’t kill yourself, ya jerk.
There’s plenty of time for that later. As Nietzsche once wrote, “the thought of suicide is a great comfort. It gets one through many a lonely night...”
So, that whole thread was just your way of jerking FReepers around!?! What an a-hole you are.
You’ve obviously never had nights like that. I envy your current and past abilities to always choose, and to have chosen, the right path. I bow down before your superior acumen in all things concerning life.
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