Tag: Capitalism
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“Binders Full of Women”: c.f. “You Didn’t Build That,” (context behind)
The context behind Romney’s faux pas makes it clear that he has been a leader in identifying and appointing qualified women to senior positions.
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Romney Should Use Tax Return Release to Make the Moral Case for Capitalism
This election is shaping up as the clearest choice in memory between the champions of free enterprise and the champions of bigger government, and Romney should make no apology for playing hard for the team to which he belongs.
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Mitt & Mitch: Governor Daniels for Vice President!
I was disappointed when Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana declined to run for president last year. The governor’s response to the the State of the Union address tonight has me ready right now to endorse him for VP. I’m a sucker for a full-throated celebration of capitalism, and Daniels pitched a gem.
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Pepper Spray Incident Shows Why OWS Has Less “Staying Power” Than Vietnam War Protests
I have very little use for "Occupy Wall Street," but even so I found the pepper-spray image somewhat disturbing. Then I mentally shrugged. It may have been excessive, but no matter how the police break up a demonstration, they will be criticized for the inevitable injuries and indignities.
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Cleveland Land Bank: A Model for Public-Private Partnership
Two things about this warm my capitalist heart. Instead of the aimless juvenile antics of the Occupy Wall Street crowd, the land bank program enlists the banks that helped create the mess in the effort to clean it up. And in the process, construction workers are employed who otherwise might be idle.
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Steve Jobs: Poster Child for the Beauty of Capitalism
Profits are not deductions from the sum of the public good, but the real measure of the social value a firm creates.
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Jonah Goldberg’s Elegant Paean to Capitalism
It’s worth reading the whole thing, but since you won’t, here are the concluding stanzas: America, with its markets, stands alone as the leading, arguably sole, source of medical innovation. Breakthrough drugs are as American as apple pie. Every good thing capitalism helps produce — from singing careers to cures for diseases to staggering charity […]
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Health Care Debate Involves First Principles: Capitalism vs. Command Economy
The battle cry of the left is that "health care should be a right, not a privilege." This is brilliant framing — it sneakily implies that the right believes health care should be a privilege. The problem, of course, is that no health care system can provide every treatment for every person for every malady.
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Hope (and Ammunition) for Opponents of Socialized Medicine
Thankfully, the public "option" appears to be dead. But just in case it attempts to lurch zombie-like from the grave, I’m glad to see an increasing number of resources available making well-articulated arguments against the move toward socialized medicine.
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Anti-National-Debt Ad is Free Speech, Not “Evil”
I pledge allegiance to America’s debt…and to the Chinese government that lends us money… And to the interest… for which we pay… compoundable… with higher taxes and lower pay… until the day we die.