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04-29-2011, 04:43 PM
Excesses of capitalism? How the hell can you have too much freedom?
the welfare state is a bandaid at best, a bandaid which creates many new problems on it's own, but there are many people bleeding out there who rely on that bandaid to survive.
if we dismantal the welfare state, the excesses of capitalism will grow to the levels that exceed what they were a century ago.
dismantaling the welfare state is an effective way to speed up the collapse of the Empire.Stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand alone.
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04-29-2011, 04:48 PM
You really need to go and live in Cuba for a while. You should experience first hand the results of your class warfare doctrines and the bullshit you espouse.
it seems all of the Cold War era propaganda will be our undoing. we tried so hard to convince the American people that PURE CAPITALISM IS THE LIGHT and anything that isn't pure capitalism is the devil - and we succeeded. that is such a naive, childish, frankly stupid picture useful only as a means to get people riled up about a war. Everyone believed it though, and because today in the post-Cold War era, no one is able to even critique capitalism, everyone acts perplexed as to why our problems can't be solved.
“ Capitalism,” a term of disparagement coined by socialists in the mid-nineteenth century, is a misnomer for “economic individualism,” which Adam Smith earlier called “the obvious and simple system of natural liberty” (Wealth of Nations). Economic individualism’s basic premise is that the pursuit of self-interest and the right to own private property are morally defensible and legally legitimate. Its major corollary is that the state exists to protect individual rights. Subject to certain restrictions, individuals (alone or with others) are free to decide where to invest, what to produce or sell, and what prices to charge. There is no natural limit to the range of their efforts in terms of assets, sales, and profits; or the number of customers, employees, and investors; or whether they operate in local, regional, national, or international markets.Stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand alone.
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04-29-2011, 05:04 PM
Originally Posted by Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
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04-29-2011, 06:17 PM
Take America back 100 years?
We want the federal government reduced to where it belongs - if it's been 100 years since the federal government operated within it's constitutional boundaries - then so be it. That is not the same as saying take the country back 100 years.
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04-29-2011, 06:53 PM
Stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand alone.
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04-29-2011, 06:58 PM
WHY?
Because the government that governs LEAST governs BEST.
Because people should be inviolate in their private property.
Because the federal government has no business engaging in "charity."
Because we believe in freedom.
Because the political class needs to be abolished before they reinstate feudalism.Stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand alone.
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