tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806285951476851034.post9134548516102780432..comments2023-04-06T03:58:20.482-04:00Comments on The Everyday People Project: Tune Up Your Fiddles - The Fire's BegunSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350532214928944088noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806285951476851034.post-68292321417540762272009-12-09T22:05:34.371-05:002009-12-09T22:05:34.371-05:00While I obviously frequently disagree with you I c...While I obviously frequently disagree with you I can usually follow you. Not so this time. <br /><br />"It us versus them and they've got the cards. That's capitalism as we play it." I'm saying that the government is grabbing more and more power, more and more of our money and our freedoms. (Now the EPA has grabbed for itself the power to potentially penalize us for exhaling.)<br /><br />That isn't capitalism. It destroys free markets, small business, the entrepeneurial spirit. It is the road to socialism. It is the transfer of power from individuals to the government. So I really just don't get what you're trying to say here.nocomme1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806285951476851034.post-79062047731303830042009-12-09T18:33:12.237-05:002009-12-09T18:33:12.237-05:00Voters have no sense of urgency, in part, because ...Voters have no sense of urgency, in part, because they've given up.<br />Who are these "people"? Voters? No. Politicians, then? At what point do you imagine they'll realize this is "their" money? <br />It isn't. They've protected themselves.<br />It us versus them and they've got the cards. That's capitalism as we play it.<br />You and I will never agree on what government should do.<br />We can probably agree that what it WILL do is not much.<br />And when the house of cards falls, each side will blame the other...a pointless exercise.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350532214928944088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806285951476851034.post-4377076174965809412009-12-09T10:39:31.665-05:002009-12-09T10:39:31.665-05:00Margaret Thatcher once said, "The problem wit...Margaret Thatcher once said, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." NY just shows that you don't need full-blown socialism for Thatcher's quote to retain its truth; a big, bloated social-oid govt is sufficient. This is scary to consider but what is worse is your accurate description here: "But there's still no sense of urgency either among the voters or in Albany." A giant mommy/daddy state tends to lull the kids (voters) into believing that it can just print up some more bucks and everything will be fine. The irresponsibility we're seeing in NY (and MA and CA etc) we're also seeing writ large in Washington. The results are likely to be catastrophic.<br /><br />The Michael Moores' of this world can disparage capitalism all they want but people simply act more responsibly with what they perceive as their OWN money. Big pools of money that belongs to "everybody" will invariably get wasted. Smaller sums that are "yours" are less likely to be spent cavalierly. <br /><br />Yet another commonsense reason capitalism is better than statism.nocomme1noreply@blogger.com