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9. The most significant basis for deciding what economic agenda to follow is the experience civilization has had with communism, socialism, and Liberalism.
We’ve seen well over 100 million slaughtered in the name of Utopia, and we’ve seen Liberalism steal over $22 trillion on their welfare plans, over a half century, with no significant difference in the poverty rate.
"Marxism rested on the assumption that the condition of the working classes would grow ever worse under capitalism, that there would be but two classes: one small and, the other vast and increasingly impoverished, and revolution would be the anodyne that would result in the “common good.” But by the early 20th century, it was clear that this assumption was completely wrong!
Under capitalism, the standard of living of all was improving: prices falling, incomes rising, health and sanitation improving, lengthening of life spans, diets becoming more varied, the new jobs created in industry paid more than most could make in agriculture, housing improved, and middle class industrialists and business owners displaced nobility and gentry as heroes."
From a speech by Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
10. The Founders recognized the relationship between private property and prosperity.
Property rights precede liberty. Perhaps some know that before it became “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in our Declaration of Independence, John Locke wrote that man has a right to “life, liberty, and property.” Property Rights Have Personal Parallels
The 'shameful six' political agendas,
Communism, Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism and Progressivism, all see government as all powerful and all-knowing, and those who rule as having the best interests of their subjects at heart.
History and experience….and research…..show quite the different facts.
Communal property, often hidden under ‘regulations,’ is an approach that puts politics before economics, and before the truth about human nature.
“Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives.”
Nazis: Still Socialists, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review
We’ve seen well over 100 million slaughtered in the name of Utopia, and we’ve seen Liberalism steal over $22 trillion on their welfare plans, over a half century, with no significant difference in the poverty rate.
"Marxism rested on the assumption that the condition of the working classes would grow ever worse under capitalism, that there would be but two classes: one small and, the other vast and increasingly impoverished, and revolution would be the anodyne that would result in the “common good.” But by the early 20th century, it was clear that this assumption was completely wrong!
Under capitalism, the standard of living of all was improving: prices falling, incomes rising, health and sanitation improving, lengthening of life spans, diets becoming more varied, the new jobs created in industry paid more than most could make in agriculture, housing improved, and middle class industrialists and business owners displaced nobility and gentry as heroes."
From a speech by Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
10. The Founders recognized the relationship between private property and prosperity.
Property rights precede liberty. Perhaps some know that before it became “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in our Declaration of Independence, John Locke wrote that man has a right to “life, liberty, and property.” Property Rights Have Personal Parallels
The 'shameful six' political agendas,
Communism, Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism and Progressivism, all see government as all powerful and all-knowing, and those who rule as having the best interests of their subjects at heart.
History and experience….and research…..show quite the different facts.
Communal property, often hidden under ‘regulations,’ is an approach that puts politics before economics, and before the truth about human nature.
“Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives.”
Nazis: Still Socialists, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review
