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There's a big question mark over capitalism today. It's one word, and it's Enron.. The corporate scandals have given the left a convenient excuse to rip capitalism. Not that they need an excuse - that's what they typically do anyway. But the misdeeds of a bunch of CEO's have provided an opening and a platform for socialist drivel: Capitalism is now under full attack. It's not criminal behavior or unethical individuals, no, it's "the system" that's to blame. The brilliant economic guru AI Gore takes his complaints to the op-ed pages of The New York Times, in an incoherent screed against Bush tax cuts, energy legislation, and "Republican governance," vaguely tying the Administration to corporate misconduct. Gore then informs us how vitally important is "the need to recognize that what has been put at risk is nothing less than the future of democratic capitalism." Here we go. Said democratic capitalism "cannot be rejuvenated unless the people and the politicians focus on the question: What is good for the whole?" And what does Algore believe is the greatest threat to "the whole"? That the Bush Administration's "economic purpose was and is ideological: to provide $1.6 trillion in tax giveaways for the few while pretending they were for the many." Naturally, Gore wants to "make sure that political power is used for the benefit of the many, rather than the few." Whenever you hear this kind of claptrap about "the many' and "the few," hold on to your wallet. Algore's liberal stew is almost identical to the language U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan uses. Annan explains in The Washington Post that the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg "hopes to bring home the uncomfortable truth that the model of development that has prevailed for so long has been fruitful for the few but flawed for the many." Translation: The rest of the world wants the "fruits" of American capitalism, while spitting on it. Here's further translations. The few: the prosperous; the producers; the achievers. The many: the moochers; the unproductive; liberal constituency groups. Annan goes on: "For more than two centuries of advances in living standards such as the world had never seen or even imagined, economic development has rested in no small part on some irresponsible activities and assumptions. We have filled the atmosphere with emissions that now threaten havoc in our lifetime in the form of global climate change. We have felled forests, depleted fisheries, and poisoned soil and water alike. And all the while, as consumption and production continued at fever- pitch, too many people ~ in fact the majority of humankind, have been left behind in poverty, squalor." What do you mean, "we"? Speak for yourself. Especially when it comes to filling the atmosphere with emissions. Although you are writing in an American newspaper, Mr. Annan, and purport to address Americans, not a single one of your statements actually applies to America. Indeed, not a single one of your statements is true. The fact is, there is no better system for "the many" than free market capitalism. In America, there is a vast middle class, ordinary citizens who have achieved the "unimaginable" living standards you reference. This is a first in human history; until America came along, most nations of the world were divided into rulers and peasants; indeed, most nations of the world still are! If you would just take the blinders off, you'd see that "the majority of humankind. .. left behind in poverty, squalor and despair" has been left there by despots and elites who eschew capitalism and freedom! It is our freedom, Mr. Annan, that allows us to pursue the natural yearnings of the human spirit, and that allows us to achieve excellence, where it is suppressed elsewhere. The cacophony of complaints at the World Summit on Sustainable Development has basically been, "You're trying to force your way of life on us; you're trying to dominate everything." Frankly the rest of the world should be so lucky as to have the opportunity to live the way we do. But the elite representatives at the Summit don't want the American way of life. This whole Summit, like every U.N. gathering, I don't care whether it's a UNICEF meeting or an environmental meeting or a convention on women's rights - is nothing more,than a disguised attempt by the leaders of poor nations to get handouts from the United States on the basis of guilt. And we come through!!! We're giving $5 Billion to this Summit because we didn't attend, and this is how we'll assuage our guilt. The people who really need help will never see a dime of those billions. It's the same old song and dance. The money is squandered by the "activists" and representatives and elites and despots. It never reaches the poor in whose name they castigate America. The [London] Sun reported that those at this Summit were living in absolute splendor in posh hotels, dining on lobster. The secret is, liberals are more craven than anybody about money. They just hate working for it. They siphon it from the donations their organizations receive, or they siphon it from the money they extort from other countries. These people are literally poison. And they, who live at the highest echelons of the economic pyramid without earning it, look with disdain at the one nation in the world that makes it possible for more people to live quaiIty lives than any other nation. They say we must be taught a lesson, we must be brought down, we must be gotten even with, we are the focus of evil the modern world, we cause all the pollution of the world, we're 5 percent of the world's population and we squander 25 percent of the world's resources. They say we're thieves, we're selfish, we steal it, and we don't care who we leave in the lurch. Yet look at the dirtiest, most corrupt parts of the world, where the worst deforestation and environmental damage is taking place. It's in the countries these people lead!. It is in these poor, ravaged countries that have not taken one step out of the 15th century. Because they keep their devastated population in abject poverty, these nations lack the capacity to clean up the evironmental messes they make. Yet they get away with castigating America, because their intentions are honorable. We are not to look at the results, which is total failure, because the intentions are all that matter. And for that, these people are rewarded! Which is why I am absolutely sick of these idiots ripping this country for what we have provided. As I always say, the world is not suffering from anunequal distribution. of wealth; it is suffering from an unequal distribution of capitalism. Some delegates at the Summit in Johannesburg were walking around with a lapel button that snidely asked, "What should we do with the United States?" The answer: Emulate us And in the meantime thank us. For preserving free markets and the prosperity they produce for the rest of the world. Because, no matter what lies liberals tell, America, and American capitalism - remain the last best hope for mankind. | ||||||||||||
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