[William M. Davenport]

The context of that sentiment is through an equal opportunity to earn.  Government redistribution is neither fair nor frugal. 

[William M. Davenport]

I like the Constitution and can’t suffer fools.  Best wishes for your career and I hope to see your work one day.

[William M. Davenport]

I like the Constitution and can’t suffer fools.  Best wishes for your career and I hope to see your work one day.

[William M. Davenport]

Socialism is government determiniation and distribution (ownership) of profit.  Profit, property (rights), and freedom must co-exist and belong to the individual.  Lose one and you lose them all.  Therefore, in the context of our times it is absurd to be concerned about business running amok while being oblivious to the outrageous overreach of government.  Christ scolded blindness such as this by comparing it to gagging on a gnat while swallowing a camel! 

The market may not be ideal but it is a far better regulator of business than any government.  What a tremendous testimony for academia that “reasonable” people now utterly depend upon government but “extremists” lean away from government for solutions they can best provide for themselves.  I have no doubt The Founders anticipated the possibility of this eventuality but they prayed it would never happen.  

…unable to discern the intentions of The Founders?  …how about Alexis deTocqueville?  Here’s a nice Euro-socialist who warned us of the dangers of passing rules to keep big business from “running amok”.  Big business has been used as a straw man by which socialists steal into our government, our schools, our media, and our homes.  One example is the evil one:  Big Oil.  They make an 8-10% annual profit – pretty reasonable.  Government rakes in 45% on every gallon of gasoline for doing absolutely nothing but exposing our national security and destroying our domestic economy.  This unreported disparity is just one of the endless examples of government/media deceptions that persuade us, in the name of compassion to shackle our free enterprise system and turn to government for handouts.  But these handouts of redstributive government beneficence create dependence and dependence is the very antithesis of compassion…

I hope the voting automatons and droids wake up soon or we will never be able to regain our liberty (as it were).     

[William M. Davenport]

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” — Thomas Jefferson.

And they’ll do it under some variation on the sanctimonious “greater good” demagoguery.  If government was able to stop all the evil in the world (or even the list you’ve provided), government would be God. 

[William M. Davenport]

Put the bong down dude, you’re about to overdose!

[William M. Davenport]

Churchill said, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”  You noted at one point that we are a nation of laws.  Churchill also said, “If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.”  DeTocqueville warned us 170 years ago that a regulatory cancer could consume our republic.  Our Founders shared your passion for disproportionate influence.  Their concern was government overreach however.  Perhaps you could consider focusing your passion on a bloated government as they did.  The API and other “special interest groups” are a necessity birthed by free enterprise to defend and protect the private sector against government overreach.  If you have a problem with special interest lobby groups, shout out for smaller government and then you’ll see the lobbyists diminished.  Or, if the government is our only hope:

1. Shout out for Congressional hearings on the outrageous costs of a college education and the absolute tax-exempt status they exploit.
2. Shout out for Congressional hearings on union abuses of tax monies and mandatory dues that are improperly channeled into influence peddling.
3. Shout out for Congressional hearings on how Congress forced banks to provide sub-prime loans for decades and how Congress now gets a pass on any liability for crashing the world’s economy.

Shout out for something based in the Constitution and the free enterprise system because the course you’re now on will take you to totalitarianism after you briefly pass through socialism.  Totalitarianism always evolves out of “progressive” movements.  

 

Afterthought:  The irony of edifying the rule of law and citing the wrongs of robbery while advocating socialism; it’s a little surreal don’t you think?   

  

 

[William M. Davenport]

Of course I’ve read the entire thread and my thoughts are neither unique nor complicated.  Free enterprise and capitalism, right here in the greatest nation ever to exist on Earth have produced over half of all the economic activity in all of human history.  Capitalism has fed, clothed, sheltered, secured, housed, and healed the planet for generations.  This is what the occupiers are protesting.  They’re deluded.  The NY Times, the Washington Post, CBS, ABS, NBS, Rolling Stone, et al (they’ve all morphed into the same stylemordial soup) are on the same bandwagon as the occupiers (or vice versa) and make no mistake about it, the origins of this rabble are sponsored – it is not a spontaneous, grass-roots movement as the aforementioned media would have us believe.  “Protect capitalism from Wall Street“?  Seriously?  This is a perfect illustration of the confusion, contradiction, and counterproductivity that has typefied the American left since the 1950s.  In short, the occupiers are demonstrating nothing but their profound ignorance of the very system that sustains them.  I wonder if fish protest water?  You can’t possibly be a part of this – can you?  

[William M. Davenport]

Ms. One,

Please check out of the lounge until you get up-to-speed on taxes, sharia, etc.  The views advocated by the NY Times, Rolling Stone, National Enquirer, Hustler, and their ilk shouldn’t be advanced in lock-step here. 

 

[William M. Davenport]

The economy as it is, college costs, insecurity, and other maladies are the objectives of the people who are sponsoring these protests.  And the regard these sponsors have for our intelligence is illustrated by their belief that we’re too stupid to notice that they’re protesting the very things for which they’ve been working for the past 33 months.   

[William M. Davenport]

Intrigued.  What converging global challenges and what consensus thinking?  And what limits are there in the free market that might constrain forced changes?

[William M. Davenport]

Regarding government jobs: Hooray for all who remain in private practice and hats off to all who remain in the private sector even if it’s not Landscape Architecture. With only one (1) private sector paycheck now available to pay every 1.4 public sector paychecks, it’s high time all Americans consider it their personal and civic responsibility to abstain from further burdening the system. We are upside down with a bloated public sector. This is where it’s a good thing ~if you can elect~ to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem…

[William M. Davenport]

Humans are innately religious whether they be atheists, Hare Krishnas, or just good ol’ soccer moms – religion is whatever your life centers around and recently we’ve joined in a zealous Jonesing fest to see who can be the most dedicated to the faith of global warming (hereafter referred to as HICCUP – Human-Induced Climate Change is Unconscionable Prevarication). The only reason the Europeans are proselytizing this crap on us is because they envy us – always have – and HICCUP provides the means to slow down our progress so they can catch up. And the only reason the American Left has joined the Europeans is because they envy them – always have. How anyone can view the faith required to accept HICCUP and think it science is beyond reason.

HICCUP exists for the sole purpose of raising taxes but taxes don’t provide more revenue to governments. Tax cuts do that and they do it very effectively. Tax reductions increase revenue to treasuries while taxes (tax increases) serve only to further corrupt the tax-and-spend culture complex while stifling economic growth. The only reason a bunch of amoral jolly green giant carbon footprint delegates have traveled to Copenhagen is to plot their next move in their ever-evolving scheme for fleecing the United States economic engine out of more money. The world has indulged in our protection, charity, culture, financing, and other provisions to intoxicating levels for so long that they are now determined to seize our wealth before the source of it (free enterprise and capitalism) seizes up. I’m sure only half of you remember the mantra of the 60s freako/whacko: “Capitalist Pig!” HICCUP is the perfect answer for these phoney philosophers. Ironically of course if they succeed, their cherished right to burn the flag along with all of the other personal liberties they take for granted while ungratefully inhabiting this last bastion of freedom will be lost for the remainder of our generation and probably well beyond that.

Either learn the truth about capitalism and defend it against the assaults from this massive, mis-guided HICCUP or adios muchachos!

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