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Take a Memo:
We've all read the breathless rants about the "greedy rich" and "evil corporations" who are supposedly ruining everything for everyone in society. It comes from mostly the left spilling over into some paranoid libertarian types. Their rhetoric is garnished with alarmist buzzwords like "huge multinationals" and "global corporatists." We're "informed" of their "record profits" and warned of how they are out of control leviathans, destroying the middle class and profiteering on the backs of the poor or working class. Statistics are drawn and presented to supposedly support their claims and arguments, but it is all one-sided statistics compiled by the leftists to help support their agenda-driven message. In most realms this is commonly known as "propaganda."
One of their favorite laments is the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizen's United, which basically found that corporations are Constitutionally protected by the First Amendment. This has been turned into the mindless rant of "corporations are people" by the lefties. Of course, the SCOTUS didn't rule that corporations are people, they don't have voting rights as a corporation, but every corporation is comprised of people. In fact, they are an association of people. Under our Constitution, you are endowed with your rights regardless of association. Your rights can not be restricted simply because you belong to an association, therefore, corporations (associations of people) have freedom of speech. To restrict it is to restrict the individuals who comprise the corporation on the basis of association, which is not allowed under the Constitution.
Whenever we see these extremist rants about the greedy multinational corporations, it's important to understand what they are really saying in essence. What they are arguing against is freedom. The ability of any American citizen to enter the arena of ideas and compete. To take your talent and idea and forge a better life for yourself and your family through free enterprise in the free market capitalist system. They wish to prohibit you from being free to do this because you may become a greedy multinational corporation in the process, and those are bad.
It is safe to say that every corporation which has ever existed, started out as an individual with an idea. Some of the largest multinational conglomerates began in someone's basement with virtually no money. Eventually, other people became involved who believed in the idea, and the corporation was born because the idea was good. Because it was a good idea, consumers responded by supporting whatever the corporation did and they began to make profit. They reinvested the profit, grew the company, and made their product or service available to more consumers. Finally, they expanded operations to other countries and became multinational.
The lefties seem to conveniently forget that virtually everything we do from the moment we wake until we go to sleep, involves some corporation providing a good or service to meet our needs. And as a matter of fact, even when we sleep, we sleep on a pillow and mattress between sheets made by corporations. All of our food, clothing, everything we have, comes from some corporate enterprise... unless we are like the Amish and make our own. For each of these corporations, at some point, an individual had an idea that people might be willing to pay money for something, and they made that happen through their own skill, talent, hard work and perseverance, in a free market capitalist system.
Now the intellectuals in the lefty crowd will drone on and on about the dangers of "unfettered capitalism" but to be honest, it's hard to tell what the dangers might be, because we've not had "unfettered capitalism" anywhere in the world for about a century or more. We began "fettering" capitalism in the early 1900s and we've not stopped. We've continued to heap on mounds and mounds of more government regulation and control over free market capitalism. We are taught about the "robber barons" from the early 20th century, as if they were always known as that. Truth is, this moniker didn't become popularized until much later, after we had destroyed their ability to be "unfettered capitalists" in America. At the time, they were businessmen who were engaging in capitalism to deliver goods and services, as well as jobs, to millions of people.
Capitalism in its rawest form is not perfection. Without constraints, capitalists tend to exploit any advantage to ensure greater profits. So most rational people, even the capitalists, realize there is some need for a degree of reasonable oversight and regulation. We don't allow monopolies, we established anti-trust laws, we passed initiatives to protect the environment from capitalist exploitation. But we currently have a flock of left-wing radicals who are vehemently committed to destroying all free market capitalism in America. So they parade around with their rhetoric designed to give the perception that capitalism is evil.
If capitalism has been so great, why would they do this? Well, it's so they can invoke a system of failed Marxist Socialism. You see, Marxism cannot flourish in a free market capitalist system. The ideas are contradictory to one another. The State needs to be in control of capitalism, not the free market or individuals. It's important to note when Marxism was developed, it was to counteract capitalism which was not free market based, but controlled by rulers and kings. Back in the 19th century across much of Europe and Asia, all the capitalism was conducted by the ruling class elite, at the expense of the peasants and working class. This is why they spend so much time trying to propagate this myth today, of the greedy multinational corporation raping the lowly working man. Marxism promises to do away with this awful capitalist exploitation by the rulers and install a system which mutually benefits all through socialization.
The problem is, the ideology has always failed to produce as advertised. Capitalism still happens, regardless of what system is in place. Under the Marxist model, the capitalists are those who have the political power and control the wealth. The working class peasants are no better off than they were under a system ruled by kings or monarchs. Corruption prevails and state-owned capitalism becomes no different than ruler-controlled capitalism. It was a breakthrough in human civilization when our founding fathers established on this continent, a system of free enterprise and free market capitalist economy. Finally, the average working man could go out there and through the fruits of his own labor, achieve the economic prosperity and future he had always dreamed of.
One of their favorite laments is the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizen's United, which basically found that corporations are Constitutionally protected by the First Amendment. This has been turned into the mindless rant of "corporations are people" by the lefties. Of course, the SCOTUS didn't rule that corporations are people, they don't have voting rights as a corporation, but every corporation is comprised of people. In fact, they are an association of people. Under our Constitution, you are endowed with your rights regardless of association. Your rights can not be restricted simply because you belong to an association, therefore, corporations (associations of people) have freedom of speech. To restrict it is to restrict the individuals who comprise the corporation on the basis of association, which is not allowed under the Constitution.
Whenever we see these extremist rants about the greedy multinational corporations, it's important to understand what they are really saying in essence. What they are arguing against is freedom. The ability of any American citizen to enter the arena of ideas and compete. To take your talent and idea and forge a better life for yourself and your family through free enterprise in the free market capitalist system. They wish to prohibit you from being free to do this because you may become a greedy multinational corporation in the process, and those are bad.
It is safe to say that every corporation which has ever existed, started out as an individual with an idea. Some of the largest multinational conglomerates began in someone's basement with virtually no money. Eventually, other people became involved who believed in the idea, and the corporation was born because the idea was good. Because it was a good idea, consumers responded by supporting whatever the corporation did and they began to make profit. They reinvested the profit, grew the company, and made their product or service available to more consumers. Finally, they expanded operations to other countries and became multinational.
The lefties seem to conveniently forget that virtually everything we do from the moment we wake until we go to sleep, involves some corporation providing a good or service to meet our needs. And as a matter of fact, even when we sleep, we sleep on a pillow and mattress between sheets made by corporations. All of our food, clothing, everything we have, comes from some corporate enterprise... unless we are like the Amish and make our own. For each of these corporations, at some point, an individual had an idea that people might be willing to pay money for something, and they made that happen through their own skill, talent, hard work and perseverance, in a free market capitalist system.
Now the intellectuals in the lefty crowd will drone on and on about the dangers of "unfettered capitalism" but to be honest, it's hard to tell what the dangers might be, because we've not had "unfettered capitalism" anywhere in the world for about a century or more. We began "fettering" capitalism in the early 1900s and we've not stopped. We've continued to heap on mounds and mounds of more government regulation and control over free market capitalism. We are taught about the "robber barons" from the early 20th century, as if they were always known as that. Truth is, this moniker didn't become popularized until much later, after we had destroyed their ability to be "unfettered capitalists" in America. At the time, they were businessmen who were engaging in capitalism to deliver goods and services, as well as jobs, to millions of people.
Capitalism in its rawest form is not perfection. Without constraints, capitalists tend to exploit any advantage to ensure greater profits. So most rational people, even the capitalists, realize there is some need for a degree of reasonable oversight and regulation. We don't allow monopolies, we established anti-trust laws, we passed initiatives to protect the environment from capitalist exploitation. But we currently have a flock of left-wing radicals who are vehemently committed to destroying all free market capitalism in America. So they parade around with their rhetoric designed to give the perception that capitalism is evil.
If capitalism has been so great, why would they do this? Well, it's so they can invoke a system of failed Marxist Socialism. You see, Marxism cannot flourish in a free market capitalist system. The ideas are contradictory to one another. The State needs to be in control of capitalism, not the free market or individuals. It's important to note when Marxism was developed, it was to counteract capitalism which was not free market based, but controlled by rulers and kings. Back in the 19th century across much of Europe and Asia, all the capitalism was conducted by the ruling class elite, at the expense of the peasants and working class. This is why they spend so much time trying to propagate this myth today, of the greedy multinational corporation raping the lowly working man. Marxism promises to do away with this awful capitalist exploitation by the rulers and install a system which mutually benefits all through socialization.
The problem is, the ideology has always failed to produce as advertised. Capitalism still happens, regardless of what system is in place. Under the Marxist model, the capitalists are those who have the political power and control the wealth. The working class peasants are no better off than they were under a system ruled by kings or monarchs. Corruption prevails and state-owned capitalism becomes no different than ruler-controlled capitalism. It was a breakthrough in human civilization when our founding fathers established on this continent, a system of free enterprise and free market capitalist economy. Finally, the average working man could go out there and through the fruits of his own labor, achieve the economic prosperity and future he had always dreamed of.
