When I want a break from reading history, politics or
economics, I often pick up a novel. One "escapist" author I really
like (if reading about the war with terrorists can be considered escapism) is
Brad Thor. I recommend his books. I'm currently reading one of his novels, Full Black, from 2011. Thor gets what is
going on. I just pray there are really characters like his good guys taking the
fight to the enemy we are at war with. In the novel, one of the very bad guys
is a multi-billionaire, James Standing, who has turned on the system that made
him rich (maybe based on George Soros?) and wants to destroy capitalism, thus
is funding and directing terrorists. A journalist, Julia from a business paper
is interviewing him:
Standing: "You have given me the usual shallow,
shopworn defense of capitalism, but you haven't given me one concrete reason why my ideas are so
unreasonable."
Julia: One concrete
reason? ... I can actually give you four. First, it is morally wrong to
take anything that doesn't belong to you and having the state do the taking
doesn't magically make it okay or right. Second, socialism has been tried
repeatedly and has never worked anywhere.
Yet each new crop of elites thinks they can enact socialism and this time it
will be different. They stick the socialist fork back in the electrical outlet
expecting a totally different outcome, but it always ends up the same. Third,
when people become reliant on the state, that reliance erodes their
self-respect, their sense of self-worth, their work ethic and their independence.
Finally, socialism promotes class envy and class warfare. The makers resent the
takers for draining their resources and the takers resent the makers because no
matter how much the takers take, they always want more. They erroneously believe
that the makers have an abundant supply from which they should be continuously compelled
to give. But as Margaret Thatcher so aptly put it, the problem with socialism
is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Yup.
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