I just had a random thought.
Even if you believe that capitalists are "greedy", it is absolutely true that government is capricious—because of the various and conflicting political agendas of politicians.
In an economic system, one of the most important things is knowing what the rules are...and what they will be in the future.
So...it's better to be able to count on the consistent "greed" of capitalists than try to operate in an atmosphere of insecurity caused by the capricious whims of a succession of conflicting interventions and rule changes imposed by government intervention or control of the economy.
The Gunslinger
Joebama American citizens 2024 print
3 months ago
Our founding fathers were right about our essential individual human rights: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. God, being gracious enough to make us in His image, has given us some of His attributes. Since God is alive, we as individuals have the gift of life and a right to life. Since God is free, we have as individuals the gift of freedom and the right to human liberty. Since God is creative, we as individuals have the gift of creativity and the right to creativity and the fruits of creative labor, i.e.: individual personal property creatively attained (pursuit of happiness).
ReplyDeleteThe other aspect of the pursuit of happiness, not found in our Declaration of Independence, is human love - love of family, neighbor and God. Human creativity and its resulting private property will not lead to happiness without human love and compassion. This, however, is an individual responsibility and not that of a Marxist/Socialist State, which in enforcing "social justice" creates social injustice by infringing on an individual’s property rights, i.e.: the individuals creativity.
The Old and New Testaments both command individuals to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, to love your neighbor as yourself. These commands were directed to individuals, not to government. The individual is commanded to leave the fallen fruit and the corners of the field for the hungry, not half of his fruit and half of his field; this is not a command directing governments to redistribute individual property. When Marxist Socialist government enforces these commands it inevitably does so through coercive infringement of individual (middle class) property rights and individual liberty resulting in the suppression of human creativity. Interestingly, when such government redistributes this stolen property to non-disabled individuals (proletariat) there is destruction of human creativity on that end as well - who needs to work if all is provided? Under Marxist Socialism the government becomes a thief which empowers the unproductive proletariat to indirectly steal the property of the productive middle class; thereby violating the eighth and tenth commandments. Such government also first, self-servingly, ensures its own wealth; so this is the initial core of injustice under Marxist Socialism. But Marxist Socialist states always go further; the Socialist State must suppress freedom of speech when individuals object to theft of their property creatively attained; and the Socialist State will, when necessary, destroy human life to suppress freedom of speech when it “gets out of hand.”
The Marxist Socialist State, and the proletariat they serve; are envious of and greedy for property creatively attained by entrepreneurs and the laboring middle class.
The Marxist Socialist State is the enemy of the American Declaration of Independence.
“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property” Karl Marx
ReplyDelete“In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.” Karl Marx
“You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.” Karl Marx
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.” Karl Marx
“The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state… Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property” Karl Marx
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.” James Madison
ReplyDelete“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” James Madison
“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.” John Adams
"Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist." John Adams
“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.” Samuel Adams
“In the general course of human nature, a power over man's substance amounts to a power over his will.” Alexander Hamilton
"In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.” Chief Justice John Marshall
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” Thomas Jefferson
“Government big enough to supply everything you need (for the proletariat) is big enough to take everything you have (from the middle class)... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.” Thomas Jefferson
“The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.” Thomas Jefferson
"Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." Abraham Lincoln
Healthy love is the product of freedom through...
ReplyDelete1) the knowledge that one is worth being loved.
2) the recognition that others are worth loving.
Unearned "love" is not love at all...only a chemical reaction between brutes.
Charity to the deserving is good, and a recognition of their value.
Charity to the undeserving is evil and a denial of their anti-value.
Had Jesus lived in Free America, he would have castigated "the poor" for seeking to live off the toil of others rather than working their way out of poverty themselves.
He would have, as do we all, recognized that some people are not capable of taking care of themselves, and would agree with us that we must care for them. But he would NEVER endorse sloth, idleness, envy and greed of those who choose not to work, and then demand the fruits of the labor of those who do.
The idea that he would mean that is a dreadful distortion of his message. And one that confuses too many soft-headed Christians, and is exploited by too many charlatans.
He would have recognized, immediately, the false argument of The Deceiver.
"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny." Abraham Lincoln
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