Treatise On Kind Capitalism & Scary Socialism
May 6, 2009 / 9:06 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierYesterday, I had the honor to be on the same editorial page as Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft over at America Issues Project. Jim has been my blog hero since the beginning along with The Anchoress, so it was quite an honor. He’s talking about the big, fat liar, Al Gore. Kinda like when a rookie basketball player gets drafted onto a team which starts his hero. That was me yesterday.
It was the first day for AIP’s site and to introduce myself to that audience, I talked about how the perspective on socialism and capitalism is exactly backwards these days. Here’s a snippet of it:
The other axiom of socialism, the first being “I care,” is the inverse of this: “You don’t care.” Socialism depends on believing that people are fundamentally incapable of taking care of themselves. It’s a dark theory, really. A socialist views his neighbor with contempt believing that the neighbor needs to do things the “right” way. A socialist views his neighbor with suspicion and is convinced that his neighbor must be forced to do the correct thing because he won’t do the right thing on his own.
So please go over and read it. The AIP site is beautiful and easy to navigate and full of good stuff.
One Response to “Treatise On Kind Capitalism & Scary Socialism”
May 9 2009 / 6:48 pm
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Don’t like Obama?, then just imagin for a few minutes if this country had elected John McCain and Sara Palin?.. These two political mismatches that were running now can’t stand eachother. McCain is anything but presidential material” remember what he said he knew about the economy? I believe the words were” Not much”.. As for Palin, is anyone besides Rush Limbaugh and a few other far right extremist that don’t now understand her elevator doesn’t all the way to the top, and I’m trying to be kind .. Think about this, Obama wasn’t elected because this country thought he was so wonderful but because the republicans WERE SO BAD, that’s. Right you stunk, and now you want America to believe you could do better? I’m not thrilled about all the spending but this countrys economy can not rebound unless the foundations of our economy are strong, like banks, lenders and large corporations, ignoring them won’t work.. Obamas doing what the failure of the republicans forced him to do and at the very least he’s doing what he’s doing because the so called republican conservatives who had power for 20 of the last 28 years couldn’t do and that’s run this country.. And at least Obamas spending is on American and not wasted on countrys that will hate he no matter how much we pretend we’ve given them a democracy..I hope Obama has sucesss..