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.

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.

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

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’t follow the logic…

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

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

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.

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 “discussion” doesn’t even try to understand their motives or objectives. Marxism is not their goal.”

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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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