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is supposed to be fighting against. This is the villification of business production, private property in resources, job creation, and consumption, and the glorification of government: "it's the government's job to take care of us," she says. As supporters of Dr. Paul's economic philosophy, and at least some of us are, we should be doing the opposite, praising production and consumption and attacking governent. Business knows more of how to "take care of us," than government.

If anyone here is unfamiliar with the classic socialist exploitation theory capitalism, all you have to do is watch this video. The theory is that resources, which socialists believe should be considered owned in common, are privately owned so that the capitalist can force people to work for a wage or starve and exploit them through that. And they way this capitalist conspiracy keeps this running is by convincing the working class to buy things they don't need. So they're forever trapped in the system of capitalist exploitation. This is video is pure socialist propaganda garbage.

If you like the kind of rhetoric represented by this video, you're probably a socialist and didn't even know it. Now you know.

Free Markets Always Work. The only alternative to capitalism is fascism, communism or socialism or some mixed up form of them.

Annie presents some valid points about current market trends but starts out with a false premise. She says “it’s the government’s job to take care of us, to look out for us. That’s their job”

Many of the problems she presented are as a result of government regulations and a lack of free markets.

It is not the government’s job to take care of us. The governments job it to protect people’s liberty and their ability to trade freely.

As a result of individuals like Annie government organizations like the Federal Organization of Consumer Protection is created. http://www.cpsc.gov/ Organizations like this lead to the federal imposition of most of the “toxins” that are placed on products that she speaks against.

Annie’s main cry is against the toxins placed on goods. Chemicals cost money and corporations do not want to spend more money than necessary to get a product to market. Most all flame retardants applied to natural products are applied as a result of federal government regulations imposed by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and are not a breakdown of Capitalism/ The problems are a result of the Government like the New Federal Mattress Standard. http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml07/07220.html
By chemically treating what we sleep on ‘the government will prevent “270 deaths and 1,330 injuries every year.” As a result, the government will expose 300 million to carcinogens to save 270 who may fall asleep in bed with a cigarette.

Even if one in the free market wanted to produce a 100% cotton chemical free mattress they couldn’t. The government is the problem not capitalism. Items in their natural state are meant to burn. So in government’s zeal to protect someone from falling asleep with a cigarette in their mouth, they create agencies that require chemicals to be placed in products.

The fight is against the fascist elements in government and not the free markets. As Ron Paul Points out in Has Capitalism Failed? We do not have a free market and we do not have capitalism. If we did these and many problems would not be allowed to exist.http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul42.html .

The fight is against government regulation forcing chemicals into goods. Many of the other problems have to do with how the media manipulates buying habits. The media is powerful enough now that they effectively lobby and through legislation bar and other companies from entering into the national mainstream market. This is fascism not capitalism. We need new media. In order to get more media we need free markets to eliminate the government regulation barriers to entry. We have to eliminate the fascism.

We need more competition. More choices in the marketplace. Less barriers to entry.

Many large corporations have contributed some of the greatest medical and technological advances to improve the lifespan and standard of living of mankind. Mankind had virtually to same standard of living and same technology for 5000 years. Then starting in to 1700’s when free markets and liberty entered the scene , mans creative genius was unleashed. Mankind took a 5000 year leap: from the horse and buggy to commercial jet liners, from bloodletting to heart transplants; from the quill and ink to the mainframe computer. These are a result of mans desire to achieve greatness.

We need as many companies as possible to enter into the market place. It

One common fallacy presented is regarding extractions. The tree cry is false. Most trees consumed in the US are from tree farms (i.e. planted pines) from companies like IP , Rayonier etc. These pines are planted and harvested like crops. Resources are recyclable and renewable.

She states 1/3 of the worlds resource space is gone.

She says the US has 5% of the population but we are using 30% of the worlds resources. Does she mean resources that have been brought to market? Are these resources we produce that are sustainable?

Planned obsolescence. The market solution is for a new company to produce a produce that does not quickly become obsolescent. Maybe we go back to recycling glass bottles?
Also, no one is being forced to purchase any of the products mentioned. They are only being purchased because the individual desired to voluntarily trade their money for it. All the market has to do is to educate and refuse to buy from one manufacturer and purchase from another. By placing market demands corporation will be forces to react to the desire of the market place.
As Ron Paul states from the article cited above: “It is now commonplace and politically correct to blame what is referred to as the excesses of capitalism for the economic problems we face, and especially for the Wall Street fraud that dominates the business news. Politicians are having a field day with demagogue the issue while, of course, failing to address the fraud and deceit found in the budgetary shenanigans of the federal government – for which they are directly responsible. Instead, it gives the Keynesian crowd that run the show a chance to attack free markets and ignore the issue of sound money. “
It is as a result of capitalism that mans greatness is achieved and accomplishment is obtained. The only way these problems will be solved is by technology and invention. Not more government regulation and not an attack on corporations. Corporations must be held accountable to honesty and fair dealings. There is no room in capitalism for fraud, fascism (lobbying for government regulations to create a competitive advantage), or any form of dishonesty. Those items are handled against the individuals committing these acts and not a law to limit free markets.

Freedom does not entail responsibility, rather it is responsibility that requires freedom.

It is no accident that the words "right" as in a liberty and "right" as in correct or the opposite of wrong are one and the same word. It is because you have the responsibility to defend yourself that it is only "right" that you should have the "liberty" to keep and bear arms. It is because you have the responsibility to feed, clothe, and shelter yourself and those in your charge (children, dependents, spouse) that it is only "right" that you should have the "liberty" to acquire, own, use, and dispose of the fruits of your labor. (aka property)

It is "right" that you have these "liberties" among others precisely because of your responsibilities, otherwise it would be impossible for you to fulfill them. Your "rights" exist because of your very nature which creates responsibilities for you. If they aren't YOUR responsibilities, then they must fall to someone else, and thus it would only be "right" for that individual to have whatever sovereignty necessary to carry out the responsibility to care for and defend you.

Since your "rights" stem from your nature, they are inalienable. They cannot be taken away. But you can fail to exercise them. However in doing so, you turn over responsibility for your own welfare to others. And you might not like how they go about looking after you.

We get the government we deserve. Self-Government isn't about electing representatives, it's about governing our own behavior. If we fail to do so, and shirk our responsibilities then we will become wards of the state.

The current danger is that so many people do not understand this basic concept of responsibility that we will all soon be treated as wards of the state rather than it being a more selective process - martial law.

Would you believe this too? Test yourself. Video 3.5 min.

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This lady gets it wrong on who pays for her $4.00 radio for one, in the end she does,or at least most do, pay many times over through interest on credit to buy this piece of junk in the first place, it's a gift that keeps on taking long after the item is trashed.
If the green folks get thier way, billions of people will die of starvation because of related jobs lost, if the greenies loose then billions die from abuse of resources and chemical contamination, but the global bankers will aquire all of the wealth left behind and thrive either way.
Have our times changed so much since John Ruskin wrote "when we build,let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such a work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our father did for us."
We are all doomed if we fail to find some common ground, no pun intended.

The problem with these Green people is that they are fighting the wrong battle. They blame everything on Capitalism and Free Markets but they have never really learned about either other than what they think they've learned over the years growing up in Suburbia and being born American.

The battle they should be fighting against is Corporatism, Fascism, and Socialism because these are the real evils of the planet and human race--just look at China. China is the perfect example of a country that has cleaned up its act since putting their tippy toe in the Capitalist pool. Anybody that's been to Shanghai 25 years or so ago and has gone there very recently can relate to what I'm saying.

The Green people see Capitalism through the perverted lens of Time magazine and the other pro-Corporatist magazines that Americans read. They only know one side of the story and that's the story that they've been force fed.

Anyway, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The confused leftists are waking up! They are realizing that Free Market theories are much better than their own; that the American dream has been manipulated and perverted and what they thought was evil American Capitalism was really a big lie. People like Naomi Wolf, Cindy Sheenan, and many leftist sites are starting to change their tune. It's almost like they're jealous of our movement because our revolution is truly American and doesn't have any hidden agendas.

Our agenda is quite clear and that agenda is at the foundation of this once great country. The leftist foundations are built on empty promises and a history so unAmerican that it even turns off most people in their own movement. Their foundation is built on a black hole....