By Frances Rice
At this crucial moment in our nation’s history, America needs a hero.
We need a strong champion of our national security.
We need an unapologetic promoter of economic prosperity that’s
made possible by free enterprise capitalism.
We need a bold defender of our Constitutional rights, including
our freedoms of speech, religion and right to bear arms to protect ourselves
from criminals and rogue terrorists.
We need a courageous fighter to stop Democratic Party socialists
from destroying our country with their failed policies and actions.
“Capitalism Is Freedom; Socialism Is Slavery” is the
title of the below article by John Hawkins which demonstrates clearly why I
stand with Donald J. Trump, the champion America needs to make our country
great again.
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Capitalism Is
Freedom; Socialism Is Slavery
By John Hawkins
"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up
with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a
great measure of both." -- Milton Friedman
“If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not
in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social
workers saying, ‘I'm from the government and I'm here to help.’” – Jonah
Goldberg
In a time where consumers have almost unlimited choices of music,
movies, websites and every product you can imagine in the supermarket,
socialism is an outdated economic system that no longer fits with the world we
live in. Socialism requires the intervention and control of the marketplace by
an overwhelmingly powerful centralized government. It penalizes high achievers,
rewards laziness and stifles choice.
Socialism is a government regulation that stops you from creating a
successful business. It’s the Bureau of Land Management or the EPA making
arbitrary decisions about what you can do with your own land. It’s the IRS
taking the money you busted your butt to earn and giving it to people who
didn’t work as hard as you did.
Almost every socialist policy requires taking resources from
someone who’s earned them and giving them to someone who hasn’t. Even programs that
are supposed to be self-funding rarely are because the juice is never quite
worth the squeeze. The real reason we’re so deeply in debt is because if the
middle class was forced to choose between paying for what our government is
spending or dramatically cutting back, our government would already be much
smaller than it is – and no wonder.
What does our government do well anymore? Do you trust the IRS?
FEMA? Are our borders secure? How does the customer service of the post office
or DMV compare to, let’s say Apple or Amazon? Who wants to live in government
housing? Who wants a minimum wage job? Who wants to answer to bureaucrats, jump
through their hoops and do as he’s told by people who see him as a nameless,
faceless slob dependent upon them for his livelihood?
This is what socialism offers.
Socialism will take something from someone else who earned it and
give it to you and in return, you will do what socialists want you to do. If
you’re irresponsible, lazy, have a habit of making poor decisions or just need
a master, this can seem like a good deal. You can work a menial job and get
paid more than you’re worth! You can go to college and you don’t have to pay
for it! Someone else will give you a place to live, food stamps, welfare and
health care! In return, you just have to give up on your pride, your dreams and
control of your own life.
People who can take care of themselves don’t need socialism and
most of those who have difficulty taking care of themselves would still be
better off under a more capitalistic system. The more capitalistic an economy
is, the faster it grows. The faster an economy grows, the more jobs and wealth
are created.
Eighty percent of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. Meanwhile,
96% of the poor in America have televisions, 93% have microwaves and 81% have
cell phones. Ultimately, it’s the economic growth produced by capitalistic
policies that has allowed America’s poor to do so well compared to the poor in
more socialistic nations. Paradoxically, the more we move towards socialism in
the name of “helping” the poor, the less poor Americans will ultimately have.
That’s because the more regulations, the more taxes and the more GOVERNMENT a
country has, the slower its economy grows.
Socialism requires a gargantuan government so it can confiscate
property, control behavior and manage an always growing list of programs to
achieve “fairness.” Unfortunately, “fairness” is a will-o’-the-wisp that can
never be caught because human beings have different levels of talent, skill and
effort.
The factory worker who spent 30 years working his way through the
ranks to become regional sales manager should make more than the new guy who
just started yesterday. The man who spent 10 years building his own successful
business should make more money than his employees.
The man who invested every
extra dime he had and does well should make more money than the fellow who used
all his extra money to buy a bigger car and nicer furniture for his house.
Socialists say, “Not so fast. Maybe those guys should make more money, but
they’re making too much money. We should control how much they make. We should
decide how much of their money they get to keep. We should control how much of
their money is given away and to whom.”
On the other hand, capitalism is freedom. Capitalism says you
should do what you want to do with your own time and either suffer the
consequences or reap the rewards. Sure, we might all cooperate to create a
military and a police force along with building sewage systems, roads, street
lights and stop signs and a few other necessities, but beyond that, let
everyone rise and fall as he deserves.
If you want to get a four year degree in women’s studies at an Ivy
League university? Great, pay for it yourself. You want to live cheaply and
work a second job so you can save up money? You should be able to do that and
someone else shouldn’t get the benefits from your hard work. If you want to
spend your twenties as a beach bum, surfing all day and sleeping in a tent at
night, you can do that, but no one else should be asked to help pay for your
lifestyle.
Having real freedom means you get to make real choices and when
that happens, some of those choices will work out better than others. The only
way to change that is to build a massive government apparatus that makes
everyone poorer in return for reducing the amount of natural inequality that
will happen when people are allowed to pursue their wildly differing hopes and
dreams.
Capitalism is not perfect, but it won’t bankrupt the country, it
doesn’t reward failure and it can’t control you like socialism. To the
contrary, in a capitalist system, businesses benefit from voluntary
transactions. Do you want to get rich in a capitalist system? Find a way to
give people what they want. If you’re just okay at it, you can make a decent
salary. If you’re as good at it as Henry Ford or Bill Gates, you can become
rich beyond imagination.
Do you want to get rich in a socialist system? Be well connected.
Make friends or just pay off people who can give you government contracts. Make
contributions to politicians so they’ll change the laws to help you and hurt
your competitors. Get the government to take money from other people and give
it to you as part of a bailout.
Which sounds more admirable? Which sounds healthier for our
country? When you give the government unlimited power to create “equality,” you
also give it the power to tilt the playing field towards corrupt businesses
that have every incentive to try to take advantage of it.
At the end of the day, socialism is for slaves who are willing to
give up their freedom for promises that they’ll be given some minimal level of
support no matter what. On the other hand, capitalism is for people who want
the freedom to rise or fall based on their own effort. If you know which type
of person you are, then you know whether you should be a capitalist or a
socialist.
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/02/16/capitalism-is-freedom-socialism-is-slavery-n2119968/page/full
