Margaret Thatcher said, “socialism is a great idea until you run out of other people’s money.”
This is what happens when you run out of other people’s money…yes, its 13 minutes, but its worth it.
The promises of a great society based on government defined and imposed equality and fairness is impossible to maintain. The fundamental flaw in Liberal or Progressive thinking is that the money will never run out; that the individual will accept the loss of freedoms; that the pride and will of the individual will be broken.
The United States was founded on the basic principal that each individual has equal opportunities to succeed and prosper to the extent that they’re willing to put in the effort. In such a system, individuals and firms have the right to own and use wealth to earn income and to sell and purchase labor for wages with little or no government control.
Capitalism does not fail the people; the people fail at capitalism.
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Dave, I just saw an article posted on Anderdson Cooper’s AC360 site, written by contributor David Gewirtz, that reminded me of your post and the video you shared. It’s good to hear more people speaking up about the need to take care of America.
Now, I don’t mean we need to see SaveDetroit tshirts and bumper stickers, television commercials asking us to text and send $10 for Detroit relief, or any new bandwagons and buzzwords. We need a long hard look at the big picture and the next 100 years. What exactly do we want for America at the end of this century? We’ve really lost our national vision. We’re too busy looking outward for the next media opportunity, the next campaign issue, the next promise it won’t hurt (too much) to break. We’d better see to our internal problems soon…
Fix America. It’s obviously long overdue.
(I find it’s hard to say something about these kinds of topics quickly. There is so much to say.)
I think the primary reason we’ve lost our vision as a nation is because we’ve lost the memory of our nation and the events that caused it to exist in the first place. Thanks for the comments…