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December 29, 2009

'Capitalism Nothing More Than a Name for the Political Philosophy Expressed in Declaration of Independence'

Dustin Siggins put an interesting post up over at Race42012 for a friend. Here's an excerpt:

[...] Capitalism is nothing more than a name for the political philosophy expressed in our very own Declaration of Independence. The truths that we hold self-evident, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," are the very foundation of Capitalism which allows individuals to dictate their own destiny without the intervention and regulation of a monarch or aristocracy. To reject Capitalism is to reject freedom-the freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail. While it is true that individuals will make mistakes, the alternative-stiff government regulation and control-only frustrates and discourages innovation in the name of protecting individuals from themselves. And so, just as the loving and protective parent must eventually learn to let her child grow into adulthood and independence, so too, governments must allow citizens to make their own decisions, to govern their own lives, and define their own destinies.

Unfortunately, far too many citizens in America are willing to forgo their freedom to succeed, their freedom to fail, their liberty to pursue their own destiny, and to govern their own lives - in favor of a nanny state to make their decisions for them. They naively see the government as a parent to take care of them. They follow the mantra of the socialists - now in power, failing to realize what they're giving up in the process. Although government can print money (and ours prints lots of it), government never creates jobs or income - it gets its money from the taxpayer and redistributes it, and the bigger the government gets the less freedom we have and the less of our own money we get to keep. Capitalism and smaller government is not the problem, it's the solution. And the next chance Americans get to fix the problem that the socialists now in power are creating for Americans, is 2010. Let's "hope" that Americans wake up soon enough to make the right "changes."

Posted by Richard at December 29, 2009 12:12 PM

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