Comments on: Groveling Worship of Ignorance

By: Max Godwin

Max Godwin — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:27:00 +0000

Mr Johnson, why just the middle, why not the whole, as in Norway’s case?

By: M. C. Johnson

M. C. Johnson — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:10:43 +0000

Interesting reading, but really a tired topic. Capitalism and Communism are both ponzi schemes. For true free enterprise and democracy to coexist, it is necessary to encourage and advantage a broad, stable, well educated middle. Anything else is just sloganeering to advantage some elite.

By: Max Godwin

Max Godwin — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:52:22 +0000

Sorry, I meant to say per capita income not GDP.
Either way, check it all out for yourselves.

By: Max Godwin

Max Godwin — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:43:14 +0000

Want to see a real social democracy in action, take a look at Norway. Virtually the same GDP as us, but a higher average standard of living, universal health care and free education to all levels. Go on, admit that you are just a little bit jealous.

Social democracy works, you’ve just got to know where to look. No conservative economist will ever draw your attention to the exceptional living conditions in a country like Norway.

I could go on, but I am not here to do your research for you.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:24:00 +0000

Lyonbrave, you are so naive, and so misguided by today’s leftist rhetoric that your eyes must be atrophying. The reason Social Security is going broke is because the democrat-controlled Congresses of the last
forty years borrowed from the kitty with IOU’s for paybacks. None, not one dollar, of the till was used to cover the tax cuts you are complaining about. Howsomever, your idol, William Jefferson Clinton, borrowed liberally (pun intended) from it to “balance” his budget in the ’90′s. I’m not saying he’s responsible for Social Security’s demise, only that it was considered (by Democrats, mostly) to be an open bank, a tappable resource that refilled itself because of the ever-flowing revenue it received.

Is capatalism holy? No: I too have a problem with the over-sized CEO salaries. But, I don’t think that’s a problem with capatalism as it is a problem with the way salaries are tied to stocks and the idea of a “golden parachute”. Should capatalism be allowed to run rampant? The needed intervention of labor unions and children employment laws are fine examples of a resounding “No”. But, should we turn the most powerful economy in history – an economy where people can run their own businesses and where everybody has an equal chance, if they are willing to work for it, of becoming rich – turn it all over to an economy that has historically NEVER suceeded?

Hell no.

By: Lyonbrave

Lyonbrave — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:52:46 +0000

Honker: Do you not realize why Social Security may run out in 40 years? Reagan, and Bush Sr. borrowed it all to pay for tax cuts to the rich. Also, why isn’t anyone mentioning the fact that the largest increases in our National Debt. over the last 50 years have come during the terms of Reagan, GHW Bush, and GW Bush?

Capitalism, while necessary for a country to develop and blossom, soon becomes the disease. It only leads to an ever increasing chasm between the Rich and the poor/middle class. There has got to be a better way.

I certainly would never claim to have all the answers but we need to stop ourselves and our elected officials from partaking in this partisan,elementary schoolyard shoving match and work together to solve the real problems of this country.

By: Jack Egrett

Jack Egrett — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:10:24 +0000

And so many frogs are so vain and so full of envy.

By: Sigrun

Sigrun — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:02:24 +0000

The liberals are vain.

By: Carmine

Carmine — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:21:28 +0000

Excellent article. With regard to the religion of Communism, it is helpful to see the legacy of Marxism in the romanticism of Rousseau and Hegel. The West suffered mightily when material science seemed to eclipsed faith. At that point there was a resurgence of a new variety of faith, faith in the Spirit of matter itself. Suddenly God/Spirit was seen working out the universe in the conflicts between bugs, people and chemicals. God/Spirit found himself via bloody revolutions. War became no more than Nature’s new godly way. So the deaths of millions upon millions of people that arose from the Marxist materialist god, was acceptable. The god of Marx is dialectical materialism demonstrated by historical determinism. Interestingly, this same romantic god is the essence of fascism as well. In both Marxism and fascism human freedom must be rejected and understood as determined by the hand of a Nature god: Hegelian Spirit.

By: honker

honker — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:49:05 +0000

The effort to privatize Social Security proved to me that the liberals have won the day in America. They have managed to convince the American people out of fear and ignorance that a retirement system with the below characterisitcs is worth protecting.
1. Is stolen from annually to pay for other government progams
2. Has little to no payout when it is not used (Death Benefit to Survivors)
3. Is by all admission, destined to run out of money in the next 40 years
4. Has a negative return on investment

If a private company boasted such a retirement plan, the government would shut them down.

How low have Americans fallen when we would rather guarantee failure in the future, than strive for success today?