Rants and Raves

There was once a time when Capitalism was viewed as the savior of the American people. After all, it was capitalism that propelled us to our position of world power that we still hold today. It was capitalism that ensured American freedoms and individual rights to own property, conduct business affairs, and achieve as much success as we could stand.  

Now, the warcry goes out for change. Normally, change is a good thing for people. It causes us to grow and understand ourselves better than we could have without it. And I suppose that the change of Socialism will do that for us as well. Unfortunately, it will also be a painful kind of change. The kind of change that causes us to have our vital organs removed, only to later realize exactly why we needed them.  

Why is it that America feels the need to enforce fairness and equal circumstances? Wasn’t it supposed to be equal opportunity? Equal platforms from which we could reach for the stars if we so desired? It was the American dream to have the ability to live freely, work hard, and enjoy the successes we brought about. Now, the people who didn’t feel like trying are in a rage over how unfair it is for those rich people to enjoy the fruits of their labors. 

Make no mistake, it is the people who dedicate their lives to success that end up becoming rich. They sacrifice every day, coming to work early, leaving work late, saving and building, constantly striving, only to have their masterpieces continually ruined by each new failure. The number one characteristic of the world’s most successful people, according to financial guru Dave Ramsey, is their indominable will to continue when it seems unreasonable to do so. They took their beatings and never gave up until they achieved their goals.

These are the same people we now virtually criminalize, demanding that they hand over their profits because they suddenly don’t deserve them.  Why? Because somebody doesn’t think it’s fair. Well, guess what, people? The more we punish those who succeed here, the more they are going to conduct their business elsewhere. We think it’s only fair to tax and steal so that everyone gets a little piece of the pie they baked from scratch, and at some point, these highly motivated, job-creating people are going to say that enough is enough and start outsourcing most of their business to countries that can appreciate having a place to work-oh, wait, I think they’re already doing that…

If we don’t wake up, give ourselves a good smack, and decide that it’s up to us to earn our own money, we’re going to begin drowning in our own overblown sense of entitlement. When nobody works, there’s no more money to steal(or tax, if you prefer to live with the illusion), which means that nobody eats. I recently heard an experience describing a visit to Russia during their openly Communist days, when a group of farmers were spotted standing in the shade and relaxing. When asked why they weren’t working, they simply replied “We get the same number of Ruples for resting in the shade as we do for working in the sun. So… we rest in the shade.” This comment spoke volumes as to the reasons that Communist nations often starve their people to emaciation.

So, for those Americans who feel that we should continue taking more from the rich and giving it to those that aren’t even working, I genuinely hope that you take a visit to any Communist country and speak to the people there about their quality of life. Inevitably, it is the lowest, poorest, most miserable existence in the world, and the people forced to live there would probably not believe the splendor that many Americans scorn as still not good enough.

Capitalism? That’s just a quickly dying myth. Capitalism doesn’t work. Why else would America hate it so much?

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