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#OccupyThis: Free Enterprise, It’s More Than An Idea & It Works

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 27th, 2011 at 10:30 AM  | 

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The Free Enterprise AllianceNever before, on the face of the earth, has there ever been a nation that has produced as much wealth for its citizens, the technological advancements for mankind, and saved the world from totalitarianism, than these United States. It was not by accident that our nation was able to accomplish this, it was because our nation was a nation built under the torch of liberty—our economic system (called capitalism, of free enterprise) based on freedom.

Yet, while free enterprise has been under assault for decades, today—from the Left-wing, Marxist ideologues occupying our government, labor unions, the media and academia to their progeny infesting city parks throughout the country—the cockroaches of collectivism are calling for an end to the system that has brought prosperity to hundreds of millions. The evil of their lies blaming capitalism for their own statist failures is only dwarfed by the evil of their proposed solutions—a Marxist state.

A few years ago, the Associated Builders & Contractors (an association of more than 20,000 merit shop contractors) launched the Free Enterprise Alliance to promote free enterprise in our society. In 2010, they launched Halt the Assault, a website that geared to calling attention to the destructiveness of government interference on our economy. HTA has grown to over 100,000 pro-free enterprise advocates.

Now, the Free Enterprise Alliance has just launched a new website (FreeEnterpriseAlliance.org) that is a treasure trove of information promoting free markets and countering the Marxist claims of those occupying our government, unions, academia, media and our parks. As their website states:

Just as America requires protection of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the American Dream requires the protection of free enterprise—the ability for humans to apply their knowledge, skills, innovation and elbow grease to start businesses, make new products, and ultimately create wealth and jobs that fuel progress for all.

When you visit the site, you’ll find a reading list of books, articles, and videos (like this one):

Check out the FEA’s new website and arm yourself with the intellectual ammunition needed to combat the collectivist cockroaches.

On Twitter: @FreeMarketsWin

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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776

**Disclosure: This is a non-paid, shameless plug for free enterprise and the Free Enterprise Alliance, both of which I know, admire, and support.

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  • ScottRM

    I wont bemoan any specific liberal concepts. I will say that you really need to step back and listen to yourself. On the communist side, Lenin or Castro couldn’t have wrapped themselves into a political philosophy with visions of universal grandeur more than you. This is the most dangerous stuff around. Its when Leaders try to drive a society by ideology rather than problem solving. It was bad for the Soviet Union and it is bad for the US. And don’t forget that most of the technology and infrastructure that was created over the past 100 years was done in a less free-market than we have now. That says something.

    • gekster

      In the last 60 years alone the government has been passing laws and regulation that have been strangleing business.
      This administration alone has done more to stifle free enterprise than at any other time in history.
      The NLRB, the EPA, the Healthcare law.
      Restricting the use of the common Edison light bulb is just one example
      of the overreach of government.
      No, it is less free than it has ever been.

    • rogerallan70

      Your comment here, in my opinion, completely disqualifies you from intelligently contributing to this discussion. This column was not in any way a statement of “universal grandure”, it was a statement of fact that our Country has seen more prosperity under Free Enterprise than any other country in the world. Our poor live better than some of the “wealthy” people in other countries. I have traveled to those countries and I have seen it myself.

      Did you ever get a look at Osama Bin Laden’s compound that was considered to be “luxurious” by the Pakistani’s? It was a rat hole. It would probably have been shut down as a homeless shelter here in the U.S.

      I am a third generation business owner. Generations 1 and 2 are still alive and I can tell you with complete certainty that doing business now is a lot harder than it was for my mother and grandfather and it is completely because of government red tape. The money I spend on complying with regulations would pay the salaries of 3 more full time people in my company.

      To say that we have more of a free market than our fathers had is ignorant at best. It shows a complete lack of understanding for history and current events.

  • younggop

    to ask a question.

    I’m a 20 year old Republican, and I support Jon Huntsman for the Republican nominee.

    I really hope I can have a discussion, and not get run off the site. I’m just wondering why everyone here seems to hate him? If it’s because of his poll numbers and you find him annoying, ok I can come to terms with that. But the number one issue this election is going to be about is jobs and the economy. Huntsman is as conservative as any when he comes to this topic, no? You attack him on civil unions and climate change .. but is that really what this election’s about? The gay marriage issue goes to the states anyway, and as for climate change, Huntsman stated that as long as India/China don’t do anything about it, there’s no way he’s going to limit our economy by putting ‘green legislation’ into place.

    Again, I just want dialogue. And if not Huntsman, who/why?

    Thanks!

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      Why I Will Not Support Jon Huntsman. Ever. [UPDATED] | RedState : http://goo.gl/T2rk5

    • younggop

      Sorry about that. Hate to SPAM but wanted to keep this all together.

      He mentions two issues aside from the main point in the post. Civil Unions and Climate Change, which I mentioned. Is that really what the election is about?????

      And the comments section from that post says it all. I think that post by Erick was very faulty, and contemplating a run for President is being disloyal? I just don

      • bs61

        if you need to find out!

    • bs61

      Because I’ll be voting for the guy or gal who is most conservative to match my very conservative values.

    • bs61

      Because I’ll be voting for the guy or gal who is most conservative to match my very conservative values.

  • younggop

    He mentions two issues aside from the main point in the post. Civil Unions and Climate Change, which I mentioned. Is that really what the election is about?????

    And the comments section from that post says it all. I think that post by Erick was very faulty, and contemplating a run for President is being disloyal? I just don’t follow the logic…

  • justiceasking

    If you were to ask those who know me, you’d know I’m not exactly a supporter of OWS. But – either because of or despite the fact that I’m a small business owner – I do sympathize. And this Red “discussion” doesn’t even try to understand their motives or objectives. Marxism is not their goal. There’s a colossal difference between yearning for a level playing field and tipping the scales backwards to redistribute the wealth evenly.

    If you’re capable of looking past the veneer, you’d be surprised how much these people have in common with the Tea Party. Their means might be different, but much of their overarching goals are the same. And you don’t have to be a bleeding heart liberal to see it.

    • gekster

      The Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party is for smaller government and therefore less taxes.

      OWS is for the business that mange to be successfull and make large profits to give them the money because they have sooooo much.

      The Tea Party is for can I keep what I work for and earn please.

      OWS is give me the money that you have worked for and earned.

      The tea Party holds a rally, have thier say, cleans up and goes home.

      OWS is we are staying here, going to make a big mess, riot if we have to to get our way, and ain’t leaving till we get our way.

      One is nothing like the other.

    • NRPax

      Both sides agree that our government has problems.

      But the Tea Party wants the government stripped down. The OWS folks want more government control and regulation. Those two viewpoints don’t meet anywhere in the middle.

      “And this Red

      • justiceasking

        “When you have people at these rallies calling for a violent overthrow of the government, imprisonment of bankers in concentration camps, and bleating about how Jews control everything, all of which is met by cheering and support from the protesters, I find that statement to be questionable.”

        We saw the exact same claims and demands from the radical right at the TP during the healthcare debate. But whereas OWS brings drums and signs, the TP showed up with guns and ammo.

        I’ll do the TPers the courtesy of not making sweeping generalizations about them based on a few loons if you lot will do the same for OWS. It’s too easy (and lazy) to allow the fringe to represent the whole.

        • NRPax

          Because I have been to Tea Party rallies and never saw any calls for violent revolution, signs exclaiming how Jews were controlling everything or speakers calling for citizens to be put in concentration camps.

          Heck, we have members of the CBC lying about racial slurs being thrown around at Tea Parties and have yet to see any evidence.

        • bs61

          BTW

          The rally in AZ where it is legal to carry showed just the gun and never zoomed out to show it was a black man since that didn’t meet what the MSM wanted to say about us racist.

          Secondly, Occupy Phoenix and Atlanta have Neo-Nazi’s carrying the same weapons, but I guarantee we won’t be seeing that on MSNBC. It doesn’t fit their agenda.

        • Raven

          No one has provided videos of Tea Partiers doing what its detractors claim.

        • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

          …without raping women and covering it up, mass arrests, and screaming about the Jews.

          A little belated, but ley me blunt: get off of our nice, clean website.

    • dajeeps

      That we talk past each other and don’t bother addressing what this pretty expensive hot potato really is. The last figures I saw, only 35-40% of every dollar that goes into the social programs actually goes to benefit recipients. The rest of it is all administrative costs, paying crooks and political cronies. The reason there is such an uproar about why we don’t want to make people pay more for this kind of debacle, even though we cannot afford them as is, is the people who receive the lion’s share of the money, technocrats and political cronies, don’t want to take a pay cut.

      It isn’t about old ladies with heart conditions going without – when the only reason they would is because the crooks don’t want to skimming off the top.

      That is why Democrats will not reform these things and want you and everyone else to pay more – they refuse to stop doling out the favors because that means loosing political power. It doesn’t have anything to do with who has more or less, or who is with or without.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      I was there on the first day in Manhattan. I saw the signs, watch the protesters march around Zuccotti Park to L’Internationale, chanting “The workers, united, will never be defeated [sic]“…Not once, but TWICE in the hour in their.

      Their motives have been, from the start. to destroy free enterprise.

      By Day Three, they had formally called for seizing workplaces and schools…

      They are not “innocent and misguided youth’ as you want to believe.

      Remember this: If you break bread with your enemy, don’t be surprised when he slits your throat with the butter knife.

      Choose a side.

      • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

        :/

  • paladin1

    An ABC News article from August 23, 2011—Huntsman was the only Republican presidential candidate who supported the eventual Congressional compromise on the debt ceiling, causing him to question all of his GOP rivals on the economy.

    “I wouldn’t necessarily trust any of my opponents right now, who were on a recent debate stage with me, when every single one of them would have allowed this country to default,” Huntsman said. “So I have to say that there was zero leadership on display in terms of my opponents.”

    This compromise was the father of the Congressional Supercommittee which is the twelve member committee tasked with cutting 1.5 trillion dollars from the budget over the next ten years, by Nov. 23, 2011. Their proposal must be voted on by the entire Congress without amendment; an up or down vote without changes. In my opinion, this committeee and its restrictions violate the Constitutional foundation of the Congress as an institution. Additionally, if the committee cannot agree or if Congress does not pass its proposal, draconian cuts to the defense budget and to entitlements are mandated. While I am happy to see entitlements cut, the defense budget cannot be submitted to the ax. This committee and the compromise that formed it, are supported by Huntsman. No other candidate supported the compromise though Romney and Cain supported TARP and the the bailouts; deal killers for me as well. No entity is too big to fail and any business that does not succeed should be allowed to fail. To do otherwise is anti-capitalist and unacceptable.

    I am a social and fiscal conservative and while not of the highest importance in this election, the issues you mentioned are anathema to my belief system.

    • younggop

      I really appreciate the response paladin, thanks. So it is the debt compromise, as well as his moderate stance on some social issues that make you steer clear of Huntsman, yes? (Totally understandable!)

      Can I ask who you support?

      It just stinks with this current field. Huntsman’s too moderate on social issues for most. Perry’s issue with immigration. Romney’s issue with, well…everything. Cain’s issue on foreign policy. Paul’s crazy. Everyone has a major flaw, it’s tough to choose a candidate…

      Fiscally, I’m very conservative. But socially I’m more moderate than most of the GOP base. And to be frank, the youth of this party, from my point of view, is more socially moderate as well.

      I feel confidant we can take back the White House in ’12 with ANY candidate we run, as long as they run a well executed campaign. Huntsman, though, would win in a landslide…I wouldn’t be nervous a bit. It seems like we’re purposely trying to make it difficult on ourselves. Kind of like a Christine O’Donnell moment, I guess..

      • paladin1

        feelings about the current field, but two things must be considered; 1) any one of our candidates, except Paul ( I agree with your assessment there and he realistically has NO chance), would be a better and more effective president than Obama; and 2) the money to finance campaigns in either party does not come from the youth of the party. Candidates must work to appeal to the older, established generation and business to fund them, and at the same time, must have appeal for the younger voters to bring them into the fold.

        You asked who I support and I will tell you; I emphatically support Governor Perry in this primary. If you read around on this site, you will find a diversity of opinions about him but most of the criticisms revolve around his accent, his debate skills, and his similarity to Bush 43. Also, as you indicated, some have a problem with his immigration status, but you must not confuse the tuition law with immigration. Governor Perry supported and signed the tuition bill which passed the Texas legislature with only four dissenting votes. That is one veto-proof majority. At the time of its passage, polling showed about 80% approval among Texas residents. That law makes the best of an impossible situation for Texans. Since the federal government requires that all residents, illegal or not, be educated K-12, refuses to secure the border or deport illegals, and requires some state services to be provided to them, it became an economic issue for us here. We could either add them to the financial strain on the state welfare rolls or use the law as a carrot to force them into application for citizenship and then give them the same rights as legal residents AS TO TUITION ONLY in state schools. This allows them the ability to become citizens and to obtain an education, and the opportunity to work and be successful here if the citizenship application is approved. Several other states have similar laws, by the way.

        On his stand on illegal immigration, Governor Perry has taken a hard line, spending 400 million dollars of Texas money on border security, sending the Texas Rangers to the border for interiction purposes (including freshwater marine patrols, supported a ban on sanctuary cities (which did not pass the special session), supported and signed a bill on voter ID, and has fought the Obama and Bush administrations in their refusal to enforce the federal immigration laws.

        Perry foes have twisted the two issues together and have told outright lies regarding the tuition bill. No state subsidies are given to the illegals who apply to the schools. They have to pay the same tuition as any other state resident.

        Perry has strong conservative stands on 10th Amendment issues, 2nd Amendment issues, and an excellent flat tax plan which includes the ability of young people like yourself to invest in private retirement accounts and earn a real return on your money instead of continuing to pay into the failing and near bankrupt Social Security system. His energy plan is a real job creator and has the bonus of making us much less energy dependent for two hundred years into the future. Lastly, he is an experienced executive, having served as governor of the second largest state in the union for eleven years. His has been consistently conservative in his service and knows how to lead.

        I hope this answers what you asked at least somewhat. There is so much information available out there but if you go to the Perry compaign’s website, you can read his energy and tax plans as well as get other information.

        Go Gov.!

        • paladin1

          any comparison to the leadership style and policies of Perry with Bush 43 is WAY off base. Perry is much more of a fiscal conservative that Bush 43 ever was. He supported and signed the balanced budget for Texas (which is bi-annual) containing cuts in many of the state sacred cows, like education. He refused to spend more than 4 billion dollars of our 9 billion dollar emergency fund in the face of heavy pressure to the contrary from teacher’s organizations, school districts, and Democrats. In the words of the old timers; “He’ll do to ride the river with”!

  • jewile23

    All of your true and valid points are lost in the divisive and hateful manner in which you put forth your opinions. I wish that people like you could refrain from using terms like Marxist, rats, and cockroaches. It discredits all of your otherwise strong arguments and makes me feel disgusting that people like you are supposedly on my side. Quite frankly, it makes me second guess everything that I think I stand for. I mean, do I really want to be associated with such hate? Thanks for ruining for the rest of us who now get to be lumped into the same stereotype as you.

    • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

      are an insult to rats and cockroaches. Were I a cockroach or a rat, I would resent my being compared to the likes of Karl Marx, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and Vladimir Lenin.

      If you really want to feel the love, cruise on over to Daily KOs and see how Conservatives are glowingly spoken of on their site. I would post some of their greatest hits, but the rules clearly state, “Be respectful, or be banned. No Profanity,” on our site.

      I personally think that LUR has shown undue restraint in his references to the OWS protesters.

    • bs61

      is not hateful, it’s an accurate portrayal of their political beliefs.

      • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

        nt

        • bs61

          n/t