Business Management 101

The pupose of a business is to make a profit = capitalism
The purpose of a business is to provide jobs = socialism

I'm amazed at how many so-called Conservatives have lost sight of these basic concepts, not to mention the fact that, in the end, the first provides far more better paying jobs than the second. This shows just how desperately education in this country needs a radical overhaul.

Say it Loud, Say it Proud

Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, asserts in today's Wall Street Journal, "Advocates of free enterprise must learn from the growing grass-roots protests [tea parties], and make the moral case for freedom and entrepreneurship." In other words, conservatives must stop being defensive, and take the offensive. Profiting from one's useful ideas or creations is indeed moral, and it is legitimate for people to trade their labor to such a person for compensation. What is not moral is for people who have voluntarily made this exchange and benefitted from it to believe that they have some entitlement to the profits from what the entrepreneur has put at risk. And this immoral entitlement mentality is at the bottom of Obama-ism, which is synonymous with socialism, or, if you like, communism. As the great Dr. Walter E. Williams repeatedly points out, redistribution of wealth is "legalized theft." It is not moral, it is not compassionate, it is not productive. Socialism is a discredited, failed, misleading philosophy based on people's weakest impulses--not their strengths--and on false promises. Capitalism, on the other hand, is the most effective means ever harnessed for creating and spreading prosperity. Capitalism works; socialism only creates misery and unearned comforts for the elitists who peddle it. (Think Al Gore.) This is what we need to say, constantly, loudly and proudly.

Ask your liberal friends how socialism has worked out in the Soviet Union, Cuba and North Korea. Would they like to live in those places? When they bring up Western Europe, remind them that those nations have had the luxury of lavish social benefits because we, the evil United States of America, have protected their rear ends from all threats and attacks since World War II, which we ruthlessly won in a most effective way, by the way. Champion capitalism and freedom!

Thank You, Rush

Kudos to Rush Limbaugh for having the courage, something our elected Republican representatives seem to lack, to call Obama out on all his outrageous lies, deception and demagoguery. The same goes for Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and others. Each day brings a new outrage, and for the most part, Republican office-holders sit silently, like a bunch of lambs waiting for the slaughter. Many of them are AWOL, and disgracefully so. They should be having press conferences and town hall meetings every day of the week. They're not doing anything in Washington; they might as well be in their districts, getting in front of every camera they can, making principled arguments against the despicable socialist destruction of our society. Thank God in Heaven that someone with a microphone will speak out against this iniquity.

Socialism: Parasite of Capitalism

If it weren't for the marvelous engine of capitalism, socialism could not exist. The grand experiment in Karl Marx's crackpot theories ended in 1991, though others crawl on in places like North Korea and Cuba. Like a parasite, socialism sucks the blood of the productive, capitalist system until there is nothing left to suck. In the process, millions of people suffer and die.

In the Soviet Union, with their vaunted collective farms, there were still individual plots for some of the collective-farm workers, the kolkhozniks. The communists levied "taxes in kind" on these plots; in other words, they confiscated the produce of the plots. The private plots produced a vastly disproportional amount of the country's production of a variety of staples. It took at least twenty kolkhozniks, working on the collective farm, to produce what four farmers in the United States produced. Productivity in other areas of the Soviet economy was not much better.

Now we embark on this already trodden path here in the United States, and we can't get there fast enough. A freakish mad scientist has put out bait for the parasites, and they have come scurrying by the millions. With their limited brains, they don't think about tomorrow or next month or next year. They don't think about children, about responsibility. They can think only of their next free meal and their next free benefit. This is their idea of "free-dom."

Whether these drones won an election or not, we have the right and responsibility to oppose them. The alternative is to become like the miserable serfs of the Soviet Union.