Bowie
01-01-2008, 06:35 AM
Great short, summative essay on the virtue of capitalism:
h ttp://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n3/thompson.html
(http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n3/thompson.html)
I particularly love the last paragraphss; a good reminder of why we are all members of this forum! ...
"Sadly, America is no longer a capitalist nation. ...
As a consequence of our sixty-year experiment with a mixed economy and the welfare state, America has created two new classes of citizens. The first is a debased class of dependents whose means of survival is contingent upon the forced expropriation of wealth from working citizens by a professional class of government social planners. The forgotten man and woman in all of this is the quiet, hardworking, lawabiding, taxpaying citizen who minds his or her own business but is forced to work for the government and their serfs.
The return of capitalism will not happen until there is a moral revolution in this country. We must rediscover and then teach our young the virtues associated with being free and independent citizens. Then and only then, will there be social justice in America."
h ttp://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n3/thompson.html
(http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n3/thompson.html)
I particularly love the last paragraphss; a good reminder of why we are all members of this forum! ...
"Sadly, America is no longer a capitalist nation. ...
As a consequence of our sixty-year experiment with a mixed economy and the welfare state, America has created two new classes of citizens. The first is a debased class of dependents whose means of survival is contingent upon the forced expropriation of wealth from working citizens by a professional class of government social planners. The forgotten man and woman in all of this is the quiet, hardworking, lawabiding, taxpaying citizen who minds his or her own business but is forced to work for the government and their serfs.
The return of capitalism will not happen until there is a moral revolution in this country. We must rediscover and then teach our young the virtues associated with being free and independent citizens. Then and only then, will there be social justice in America."