Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
Europe's SOCIALIST policies and nanny state/welfare haven and their own open border multiculturalism is destroying Europe. The "capitalism" you are condemning isn't capitalism, it's CRIME! It would be like having a baseball team cheat and win the world series and then condemning ALL baseball teams including those who do not cheat. Cheaters and Criminal should be prosecuted, not courted by BOTH parties for campaign money. So sure, get rid of ALL the crony capitalists and all the politicians who are in bed with them. Start with Obama and his buddy Imelt from GE who manipulated tax codes and hid money away to pay NO taxes... also Google who paid single digit taxes with all the money they made. Shut THEM both down. And please take out any Republicans doing the same thing (again... Romney anyone?). Enforce the laws that exist NOW and most of this would get cleaned up. These NEW laws passed mostly PROTECT the large firms and banks and kill the local and regional firms and banks with so much costly paperwork they go out of business leaving the cheaters alone entirely.

People who work hard and create something that people want to pay for voluntarily with their own money should be left alone. No more bailouts or govt. intervention. GM should have been broken up and sold off to make room for others to fill that need BETTER. Local and regional banks should be allowed to work honestly without the government targeting them with useless bills and rules meant to kill them off to help their donor cronies get richer. The local grocer should be allowed to sell food and build a reputation for having safe products to keep his business.

Capitalism rewards hard work and innovation. People have come from the lowest rungs of society and made something of themselves. Government needs to protect them from criminals, not stand in their way.

Brian


Europe is no more 'socialist' than the US or any other market based economy. It's just another way of organising capitalism.

The principle of welfare is, in any case, a liberal democratic reaction to the threat of socialism. Open borders and multiculturism are the means by which Europeans seek to prevent war and mayhem and promote freedom of movement of people and...capital.

It seems a very curious thing, this 'capitalism'- it is the solution to all the world's ills, but only if the conditions are right and it's done just the way one or other person prescibes - in the wrong hands it's evil and destructive. What does this tell us I wonder - that some people are good and some are bad?

There is no morality in economics. Adam Smith might have thought so, but he died a long time ago and his ideas have been somewhat superceded by the reality of modern commercial life, namely that Capital rewards the winner solely , not those taking part. Effort guarantees nothing. Hard work guarantees nothing. You are honestly mistaken if you think that there is some mystical pure form of unblemished capitalism that would work if only all the various bad folks would leave it alone. Just read the list of bad guys - the left, the right, europeans, big business, vested interests, welfare liberals - well that's quite a number of suspects to be going on with! Does everyone have to stop what they're doing now and adopt some local co-operative form of exchange and production and distribution?

Why anyone who isn't rich defends capital is beyond me. It's not analogous to freedom - it is a form of slavery for almost everyone involved.

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