Category: Politics
Posted by John R. LaPlante on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:24 AMPro-freedom versus pro-rent seeking
I'm in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina to attend the annual meeting of the State Policy Network.
Here's one item that might surprise those of you who believe in stereotypes of the center-right side of things: There's a fair amount of disgust here with the Republican Party among attendees.
As for conservatives and libertarians being the robots of some corporate overlords, I'll repeat something I heard from one of the speakers: Entrepreneurs are pro-freedom; corporate leaders are rent-seekers.
An entrepreneur pursues financial self-enrichment by building a better mousetrap. A rent-seeker pursues financial self-enrichment by getting government to require everyone to buy a mouse trap, or at least his particular style of mouse trap.
To see rent-seeking in action, look at the decision by three major utility companies to endorse cap and tax.
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I thought we were talking about entrepeneurs v.rent seeking?
Wow! I'll have some of what Pinenee's having! I read Mr. LaPlante's post and enjoyed it, came back to see the comments...whooooweeeee.
On second thought, I'll pass on what P is having - it appears to make one delusional and irritable. Rock on, Brother P!
John R LaPlante, never happened in 30 years
PINENEE is the one apparently living in an angry and vengeful fantasy world...
But the comments were fun to read nonetheless...
John R LaPlante, never happened in 30 years
The guys who has been living off the American Industrial-Military complex since the Summer of 1945 are not Capitalists nor entreprenuers.
The Republican Party under Bush/Chaney/Reagan for 20 years were not capialists or entreprenuers.
They, American conservatives, keep speaking, world and American citizens must submit to their eerie philosophy. A philosophy to maintain European colonialism, inperialism, and "white supremacy" created over the past 500 years.
That same group told the American "white culture" if they submit to the Reagan philosophy, then modern social, political, and economic changes would not effect and affect their, the American "white culture".
Mr Bush discovered by the first half of his first year as U.S. Persident that he couldn't impose the dark old fashioned and passe Reagan philosophy on anybody world wide.
Now, Fall of 2009, you guys the Republican Party Reactionaries speak, spinning the "LIE" and deception that some how the capitalist market will recover and revive the moribound USA society and culture, how/who??
Everything created by humans, require humans to work hard, effective, and intellegently to maintain.
Who in the hack is remotely interested in working their butts off so the world can maintain the Reagan colonial, imperial, and "white" supremacy hegemony, even the Republican Party reactionaries failed to work hard during the Bush/ Chaney 8 years, nobody.
I will repeat, you the American Republican Party reactionaries are the people who want the world population to "behave" under the colonial, imperial, and white supremacy edict(s).
For American liberals and other world populations the future is there for them. The stereotyped world of the American Republican Party reactionaries has passed.
Mr. LaPlante submitting and submission to an out of date Reagan philosophy "WON'T/CAN'T MAKE YOUR FANASY ILLUSIONARY STEREOTYPE WORLD" true!!!!!
For 30 years you guys have never been able to impose your strange and "neven" was society on the world's population, even your own constituency, the reactionaries..
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