Is it the Right.....or the Left?
Whose policies encourage said inequality?
Hypothetically......shouldn't the informed voter be conversant with the economics and history, as well as the political doctrines that flow from these disciplines.?
Or....to put it more succinctly.....need one be a total idiot to vote Leftist????
1. Recently, The Guardian published an article in which blithering idiot George Monbiot, blames all of contemporary woes on what he calls "neoliberalism." Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
a. Let's go over the definitions....
Neoliberalism is what we call classical liberalism, the view of our Founders, or, what would be conservatism today.
Liberalism, or Modern Liberalism, i.e., Bill's wife, is actually the term communist John Dewey purloined and adhered to the Socialist Party. It was never the view of the Founders.
2. "...Monbiot claims that the political philosophy of economists F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman — what he pejoratively calls “neoliberalism” — is “at the root of all our problems.” Monbiot notes correctly that [classical] liberal economists are generally in favor of free markets and minimal government intervention in the economy.
However, he also makes some rather weird claims that make you wonder if he has actually read people whose ideas he’s criticizing. For example, he claims that “neoliberals” like Hayek and Friedman believe that “inequality is … virtuous: a reward for utility and a generator of wealth, which trickles down to enrich everyone. Efforts to create a more equal society are both counterproductive and morally corrosive.”
3. [Actually] Friedman wrote that “special monopoly privileges granted by government, tariffs, and other legal enactments benefiting particular groups, are a source of inequality. ...
“The extension and widening of educational opportunities has been a major factor tending to reduce inequalities. Measures such as these have the operational virtue that they strike at the sources of inequality rather than simply alleviating the symptoms.”
4. F.A. Hayek similarly wrote in The Road to Serfdom (1944) that there is a “strong case for reducing inequality of opportunity as far as congenital differences permit and as it is possible to do so without destroying the impersonal character of the process by which everybody has to take his chance and no person's view about what is right and desirable overrules that of others.” Neoliberalism: the Left’s Eternal Boogeyman | Corey Iacono
To summarize the above, classical liberals, the Founders, today's conservatives.....favor a society based on individualism, free markets and limited constitutional government.
If any are deluded into believing the Left's answer to society: collectivization, unquestioning lock-step adherence to government policies, over-regulation, and unlimited central command and control governance.....
....just look at the economy Obama has produced.
Whose policies encourage said inequality?
Hypothetically......shouldn't the informed voter be conversant with the economics and history, as well as the political doctrines that flow from these disciplines.?
Or....to put it more succinctly.....need one be a total idiot to vote Leftist????
1. Recently, The Guardian published an article in which blithering idiot George Monbiot, blames all of contemporary woes on what he calls "neoliberalism." Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
a. Let's go over the definitions....
Neoliberalism is what we call classical liberalism, the view of our Founders, or, what would be conservatism today.
Liberalism, or Modern Liberalism, i.e., Bill's wife, is actually the term communist John Dewey purloined and adhered to the Socialist Party. It was never the view of the Founders.
2. "...Monbiot claims that the political philosophy of economists F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman — what he pejoratively calls “neoliberalism” — is “at the root of all our problems.” Monbiot notes correctly that [classical] liberal economists are generally in favor of free markets and minimal government intervention in the economy.
However, he also makes some rather weird claims that make you wonder if he has actually read people whose ideas he’s criticizing. For example, he claims that “neoliberals” like Hayek and Friedman believe that “inequality is … virtuous: a reward for utility and a generator of wealth, which trickles down to enrich everyone. Efforts to create a more equal society are both counterproductive and morally corrosive.”
3. [Actually] Friedman wrote that “special monopoly privileges granted by government, tariffs, and other legal enactments benefiting particular groups, are a source of inequality. ...
“The extension and widening of educational opportunities has been a major factor tending to reduce inequalities. Measures such as these have the operational virtue that they strike at the sources of inequality rather than simply alleviating the symptoms.”
4. F.A. Hayek similarly wrote in The Road to Serfdom (1944) that there is a “strong case for reducing inequality of opportunity as far as congenital differences permit and as it is possible to do so without destroying the impersonal character of the process by which everybody has to take his chance and no person's view about what is right and desirable overrules that of others.” Neoliberalism: the Left’s Eternal Boogeyman | Corey Iacono
To summarize the above, classical liberals, the Founders, today's conservatives.....favor a society based on individualism, free markets and limited constitutional government.
If any are deluded into believing the Left's answer to society: collectivization, unquestioning lock-step adherence to government policies, over-regulation, and unlimited central command and control governance.....
....just look at the economy Obama has produced.
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