tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post9088985441777730788..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Jobs or Entitlements, But Not BothDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27413189588580108182010-09-21T06:16:59.264-04:002010-09-21T06:16:59.264-04:00By the end of his term Obama and gang will have cl...By the end of his term Obama and gang will have cleaned out America and lined their own pockets with big bucks.<br />We won't recover from this easily.<br />America has lost its mind.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-51499613247903310132010-09-21T01:08:52.303-04:002010-09-21T01:08:52.303-04:00"Take away the free market and you also take ..."Take away the free market and you also take away the only system with a proven track record of helping the working class overcome social barriers and live a comfortable lifestyle. It was a growing economy, not a revolution, that ended the hegemony of the English aristocracy. It was that same economy which fueled anger by American merchants and farmers over exploitation and taxation and brought on the American Revolution. Compare the results to the French and Russian revolutions, which brought forth only blood, slaughter and tyranny."<br /><br />Oh, that's not quite right at all. The most important difference between the French, Russian and American Revolution was the distance between the revolutionary public and the authorities they were revolting against. And so also was the economy independent. The wealth that the colonial authorities expected from the colonists was hard to get a hold of. It was based on middle class labor and personal property, a notion that was not entirely well established in England, France or Russia. Without a legal system founded on the values advanced in the American Revolution, personal property had no secure basis. "Taxation without representation is tyranny." "Only two things in life are certain, death and taxes." Without a revolution, the colonies were the property of the crown and so also in France and Russia, personal property, as a basis of capitalism were out of reach and not respected.<br /><br />If the American Revolution had spread to it's mother country, would it have been bloodless? It certainly wasn't bloodless in the colonies and, in fact, held much in principle with the revolution in France. In those days people called each other "citizen" in much the same way that that communists later called each other "comrade".<br /><br />Capitalism in the US today is to be respected only to the extent that capitalists respect personal property. Everyone is entitled to benefit from the fruits of their labor and when they don't, capitalists are not in a position to complain when they are induced to cough up for "entitlements". But capitalists are not obliged to uphold capitalism on principle and so welfare does indeed become an "entitlement", but not to citizens, only to somebody -- anybody -- else, even if you have to ship them here from somewhere else.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13265154565691102783noreply@blogger.com