tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987467127606469042024-02-19T04:35:26.661-05:00Jay's Free Enterprise BlogJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.comBlogger249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-5571268313845302792021-07-04T13:05:00.003-04:002023-10-07T11:14:41.671-04:00Improving Lives, or Trampling on Them? Invisible Hands Don't Trample<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">"The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what
manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a
most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be
trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever,
and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly
and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">" </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This 18th-century quote is perfectly applicable today!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Note the word <i><b>"capitals."</b></i> Capital is one of the factors of production, which are defined as land, labor, capital and entrepreneurs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">If production is desired, if economic growth is to be achieved, the factors of production must be employed, or allowed to be employed, to be able to PRODUCE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For any gubment, or anyone in gubment, to decide that it is possible to direct the private sector's economic activities is simply impossible. <b> </b><u><b>It's impossible!</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As Adam Smith says, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Invisible hands don't trample.</span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One should not try to make it through life without reading Adam Smith's history-making book on free enterprise - The Wealth of Nations - which can be found <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Adam-Smith-ebook/dp/B0C5BCTXX2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ATNRWT37Y6OG&amp;keywords=wealth+of+nations&amp;qid=1696691458&amp;sprefix=wealth+of+nations%252Caps%252C144&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=30c220bbacb77d0cebf248fb38dd435c&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></u></b></span>. It came out in 1776, and not by accident. He was in constant contact with the Founding Fathers, and particularly one Thomas Jefferson. A great Adam Smith biography is <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Smith-Life-Thought-Legacy/dp/0691154058/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SYX2BAZD73Y8&amp;keywords=adam+smith+biography&amp;qid=1696691562&amp;sprefix=adam+smith+biography%252Caps%252C89&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=158d7343fd4cd159a948771c4cad7b29&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></u></b></span>. <br /></span></span></div>
Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-18103348440026201722015-06-15T06:07:00.007-04:002023-10-07T10:57:18.689-04:00Free Enterprise Is The Model For Economic Perfection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."<br />
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<b>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)</b></div>
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Pick your analogy: an economy is like a human body. It is like an engine. It is like an ecosystem.<br />
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An economy is an interactive, vibrant, bustling thing, with trillions of parts, with each part having its own place and function. Or at least it should be.<br />
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Any economy could very much be compared to the human body. And like most things, garbage in, garbage out. The body must be fed. Physically fed, mentally fed, spiritually fed, emotionally fed, socially fed - you name it. The body is vibrant, and complex. What goes into its creation and maintenance should very much be the best that can be provided.<br />
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Free enterprise is the kind of engine that is well suited to provide the best and most complex energy and sustenance for the body of any economy. Economic activity requires vibrancy, and the best place for diverse vibrancy is a free-market influence.<br />
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Carnegie said that while it may be tough on the individual, the competition found in a free enterprise economy is best for the whole (which he called "the race") because "it insures the survival of the fittest in every department."<br />
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And so it is with any body, or engine, or ecosystem, or whatever is complex and interactive.<br />
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Leonardo da Vinci had some suggestions on how to best maintain the human body. He was an accomplished chef, mostly vegetarian, and understood the importance of good food toward the maintenance of the human body. Goethe said of him, "Handsome with a splendid physique, he seemed a model for human perfection."<br />
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Obviously da Vinci practiced what he preached. He viewed illness as "the discord of elements infused into the living body." In other words, garbage in, garbage out.<br />
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And so it should be with an economy - what goes in contributes greatly to what results. Especially if it is allowed to operate freely, and with voluntary exchange. Good in, good out. Vibrant in, vibrant out. Happiness in, happiness out. Free enterprise in, free enterprise out. And so forth.<br />
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Here are da Vinci's suggestions for healthy living. Pay attention to how simple, and complete, this list is:<br />
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<i>"To keep in health these rules apply:</i><br />
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<li><i>Beware of anger and avoid grievous moods.</i></li>
<li><i>Rest your head and keep your mind cheerful.</i></li>
<li><i>Be covered well at night.</i></li>
<li><i>Exercise moderately.</i></li>
<li><i>Shun wantonness and pay attention to diet.</i></li>
<li><i>Eat only when you want, and sup light.</i></li>
<li><i>Keep upright when you rise from the dining table.</i></li>
<li><i>Do not be with the belly upward or the head lowered.</i></li>
<li><i>Let your wine be mixed with water, take a little at a time, not between meals and not on an empty stomach.</i></li>
<li><i>Eat simple (i.e. vegetarian) food.</i></li>
<li><i>Chew well.</i></li>
<li><i>Go to the toilet regularly!"</i></li>
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Applying this kind of wise simplicity to the health of an economy (and free enterprise provides that naturally), that economy will be, like da Vinci, a "model for [economic] perfection."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free enterprise is the model for economic perfection. </b></span></div><p>
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</p><p>Goethe is an interesting figure in world history. We can learn from him by learning about him! A good source of information about the person can be found <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Goethe-Life-as-Work-Art-ebook/dp/B01HDSU0FQ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=ZGR5WRGM5BSM&amp;keywords=goethe+biography&amp;qid=1696690094&amp;sprefix=goethe+biography%252Caps%252C92&amp;sr=8-3&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=1b18d74de03ce3f6590bb3e3f4b26c39&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><u>here</u></b></span>.</a> And, of course, no free enterprise article would be complete without the recommendation to read what may be the best book on voluntary, free exchange <b><u><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Statement-Milton-Friedman-ebook/dp/B004MYFLBS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PK5VP3FK39IA&amp;keywords=free+to+choose+by+milton+friedman&amp;qid=1696687873&amp;sprefix=free+to+choose%252Caps%252C98&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=7b5c7ab59206d178255e1f3313a028d2&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">.</span></u></b> Enjoy!<br />
<br /></p>Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-92090502237893259182015-05-09T09:22:00.002-04:002023-10-07T11:06:22.613-04:00Free Enterprise Happens Because The Mental And Physical Happen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Baseball is ninety nine percent mental. The other half is physical."<br />
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<b>Yogi Berra</b></div>
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The well-known baseball player and manager Yogi Berra was famous not only for his baseball prowess and history, but also his sayings. He called them truths. Others called them Yogiisms.<br />
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Sometimes paradoxical, and sometimes contradictory, they always seemed to get to the nub of what he was saying and as such became instantly understandable. <br />
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This one is no different. It says it all.<br />
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And it can be applied to more than baseball. It can be applied to business and free enterprise. You have to give free enterprise effort - mental and physical. Can they add up to more than one?<br />
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Maybe. Sometimes the effort is more mental and sometimes it may be more physical. But you have to give the effort. And no matter what the effort is.<br />
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And in all phases - idea development, product or service development, implementation, market and market segment, delivery, product differentiation, whatever! Certainly, it's ninety nine percent mental and the other half is physical.<br />
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This Yogiism might just as well be a free enterprise-ism as well.<br />
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Not paying attention to the mental or the physical will not usually lead to success in anything, be it baseball, or a free enterprise undertaking. But that only states the obvious.<br />
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After all, how did people get to the stadiums and ball parks for baseball games. Free enterprise brought them there! From the subways, to buses and trains, to cars. With hopes of souvenirs and food and drink. And a venue with lights and loudspeakers. And on an on. Baseball happened along with the free enterprise that contributed to its happening.<br />
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Free enterprise is certainly ninety nine percent mental, with another half of physical and the rest thrown in.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free enterprise happens because the mental and physical happen.</b></span></div><p>
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</p><p>This may be the most revealing portrait of the man, Yogi Berra. You can see it <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><u><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Yogi-Life-Jon-Pessah-ebook/dp/B07F66SFWG/ref=sr_1_4?crid=38HWW5UW2R8TG&amp;keywords=yogi+berra&amp;qid=1696690776&amp;sprefix=yogi+berra%252Caps%252C112&amp;sr=8-4&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=332d71c5ed98334dd404b2c978963141&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></b></u></span>. An excellent children's book on Yogi can be read <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Berra-Baseball-Legends-Martin-Appel/dp/0791011690/ref=sr_1_3?crid=23LXPZSEC4HBC&amp;keywords=yogi+berra+children%2527s+biography+book&amp;qid=1696691053&amp;sprefix=yogi+berra+childrens+biography+book%252Caps%252C92&amp;sr=8-3&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=d3faa311a30e115e0cc0b16ead105ceb&camp=1789&creative=9325"." target="_blank">here.</a></u></b></span> It is very popular!<br />
<br /></p>Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-15516031324995060132015-04-30T02:42:00.002-04:002023-10-07T10:18:08.561-04:00Free Enterprise Finds A Better Way<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. There's a way to do it better<b> - f</b>ind it."<br />
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<b>Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)</b></div>
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Therein lies the crux of free enterprise. Trying just one more time, and doing it better.<br />
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And this thought came from an individual who thrived on doing it better.<br />
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Thomas Edison had far more "inventions" and patents that were improvements of other inventions and patents than he did original inventions and patents. He simply found a way to do it better.<br />
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He thrived on learning how "it" was not to be done, so he could find a way to do "it" period.<br />
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He thrived on the idea that "it" involved very little inspiration and a lot of perspiration.<br />
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Edison's version of <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://jaysfreeenterpriseblog.blogspot.com/search?q=creative+destruction"><span style="color: red;"><b>creative destruction</b></span></a> <span style="color: black;">was </span></span>through creative improvement and reinvention. At his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory, he assembled an international team of engineers, a glass blower, mathematician, a Swiss clock maker, carpenters, machinists, business professionals and secretaries, and put together a small factory he referred to as his "invention factory."<br />
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And they worked, at creative destruction through creative redesign.<br />
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Not that they didn't invent new things! They did! His original design for the light bulb socket is still in use today. And not many things have been more creatively destroyed and reinvented over the years than the light bulb. He found a zillion ways NOT to do it, and then found the first real way to do it. And things went from there.<br />
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This is the essence of what you get if free enterprise would be boiled down. What would be left in the pot would be this idea of trying things one more time, and finally doing something better.<br />
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The freedom, and free market, to do so is the catalyst of what makes it happen. <br />
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Edison's good friend, Henry Ford, found the Menlo Park work to be so important that he had Edison's lab buildings reconstructed in Dearborn, Michigan, from drawings and with some of the original materials, so that people could see in museum form what it was in which so much new thought and rethought took place.<br />
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His thinking and rethinking of things began as a very young child. His favorite word seems to have been, "Why?" If people could not answer his questions, or if they did not know how something worked, he would ask why. Most found this persistence to be arrogant and aggravating.<br />
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A teacher at his school lost patience with this persistent questioning pronounced him "addled." Addled, or confused, was not something that pertained to Thomas Edison. He was merely an investigator, and would today be diagnosed with some form of "special need," and prescribed some drug to "help" his condition. Of course, he needed no such "help."<br />
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His mother, recognizing his frustration and the frustration of his teacher(s) withdrew Thomas from school. Long before it was popular, and this is the 1850s, she began home schooling him. Her technique? Let Thomas investigate. She taught him from the Bible, his father gave him a dime for every classic he completely read, and Thomas was allowed his passion during school - he loved to read and recite poetry, and study world history, English literature and Shakespeare. <br />
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At 11 he was taught how to use the local library and he spent his days there. His eventual interest in mathematics and science lead his parents to realize they would be unable to help him further and they hired a private tutor. The tutor could really only encourage Thomas's voracious ability to analyze and investigate.<br />
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In addition to school he began working at age 12 selling newspapers and candy at a local commuter train station. At 14, using news from the local teletype machine, he published his own weekly newspaper, selling it to a group of 300 devoted commuters who purchased it regularly. It was the first known type-set publication sold to train commuters in the country.<br />
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Taught Morse Code, he soon became exceptionally competent at telegraphy. In fact, at 16 years of age, his first invention was what he called the "automatic repeater," a device that could send transmissions from station to station and allowed others to more easily translate the Morse Code clicks at their own speed. He never patented that first invention!<br />
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Edison's whole life was spent "finding a better way." He epitomized the quote above. He never failed to try things just one more time, and find a better way. In that he epitomized free enterprise.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Free enterprise finds a better way.</span></b></div><p>
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</p><p>One of the most popular biographies of Thomas Edison can be found <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Edison-Edmund-Morris-ebook/dp/B07NCMDWZD/ref=sr_1_2?crid=26NLQ0RZQ5G8C&amp;keywords=thomas+edison+biography&amp;qid=1696686827&amp;sprefix=thomas+edison+biography%252Caps%252C178&amp;sr=8-2&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=edcf50a95177c5355526a22f17f4c0d5&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></span></b>. Children always benefit from reading biographies of famous people, and probably the best children's book on Edison is found <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Who-Was-Thomas-Alva-Edison-ebook/dp/B009GXAJEO/ref=sr_1_4?crid=26NLQ0RZQ5G8C&amp;keywords=thomas+edison+biography&amp;qid=1696687178&amp;sprefix=thomas+edison+biography%252Caps%252C178&amp;sr=8-4&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=2f2293ae076886074676e3859ecde92c&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a></span>. And always, probably the best book on Free Enterprise can be found <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Statement-Milton-Friedman-ebook/dp/B004MYFLBS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PK5VP3FK39IA&amp;keywords=free+to+choose+by+milton+friedman&amp;qid=1696687873&amp;sprefix=free+to+choose%252Caps%252C98&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=60ff5acfe4dccb2c159b764881f7a4ca&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></span></b>.</span> Everyone should read Milton Friedman.<br /></p>Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-74136356029594896452015-04-22T07:38:00.001-04:002023-10-07T12:49:06.071-04:00Free Enterprise Is A Ferocious Jungle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.”<br />
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<b>Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)</b></div>
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<b>From the book <u><i>Tarzan of the Apes</i></u></b></div>
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Such is the life of an entrepreneur! <br />
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Starting something, even from the ground floor, a new product, a new idea, a new service - is difficult at best. And the entrepreneur must, indeed MUST, assume that there are lions out there.<br />
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And not just that there are lions, but that the lions that he will face are all ferocious.<br />
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And who or what are the lions? An entrepreneur has to be a lion. And a ferocious lion! And the entrepreneur has to assume that the new thing being offered by his business will be accepted. Why else go through all that it takes to bring something new to the fore? And even if that new thing is indeed new, never before seen, there may be another entrepreneur (another lion) with the same thing. Or, and this is a certainty, there are other lions out there ready to pounce on the first entrepreneur's good or service, and offer a similar thing. <br />
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And the second new thing will be very similar, but different. It will offer itself as bigger, better, more colorful, doing more things, more convenient, a second for free, free shipping, etc., than the first!<br />
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The free enterprise jungle is full of other lions! And the first new good or service offered by the first lion, if received and in demand, will be pounced upon by other ferocious lions. The first entrepreneur has to assume, as Tarzan knows, that they are ferocious! <br />
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And free enterprise is beautiful and hideously ferocious at the same time - the second (or third or fourth) lion will find <a href="http://jaysfreeenterpriseblog.blogspot.com/search?q=cheese"><b><span style="color: red;">plenty of meat</span></b></a> to eat!<br />
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This plots the course for the first entrepreneur. There must not only be plans for the roll out of the first new thing, but plans in advance for another roll out of an improved version. If not that, then at least the first entrepreneur must have the ability built in to up the ante with faster this, more colorful that, or free this or that.<br />
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One new product out in recent years offers home repairs in a can. You merely spray the magical stuff on whatever the surface and magically it is repaired - no more leaking, no more exposure to damage - and the repair even magically disappears! The repaired whatever looks like new! At least on TV.<br />
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Since the roll out of the first magic in a can, not only are there more colors of the original product, but different kinds - a caulk and a putty in addition to the spray. And all of the new products are just as magical as the first! And also come with the free this or that, and if you call by a certain time you might, maybe, hopefully, wonderfully qualify for a second ABSOLUTELY FREE! But call now!<br />
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The lions pounced on the first product with their similar offerings. And they have been ferocious! And to keep up, these second and third and fourth lions must also offer the add-on products that are just as magical and wonderful as the first lion's offerings. It is a virtual tornado of ads and offerings.<br />
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There is ferocity all over the jungle! And the lions all appear to be fed well.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free Enterprise Is A Ferocious Jungle.</b></span></div><p>
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</p><p>There are some great books about how to compete in this ferocious jungle. The book <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Advantage-Creating-Sustaining-Performance-ebook/dp/B001CB34KY/ref=sr_1_7?crid=2N5WMS2LDHQXI&amp;keywords=competition+and+free+enterprise+book&amp;qid=1696696864&amp;sprefix=competition+and+free+enterprise+book%252Caps%252C96&amp;sr=8-7&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=73be62bdb3f781155c827d8572d8263f&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></u></b></span> has been on the market for a long time, and in its 12th printing. It has influenced competitive advantage for businesses and even nations. You can get a book <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Paradox-Cooperation-Enables-Competition-ebook/dp/B07S97M249/ref=sr_1_13?crid=2N5WMS2LDHQXI&amp;keywords=competition+and+free+enterprise+book&amp;qid=1696697103&amp;sprefix=competition+and+free+enterprise+book%252Caps%252C96&amp;sr=8-13&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=697fd0cac77dce35066e125878bd1be9&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></u></b></span> that identifies how cooperation is necessary for free enterprise to work, even in a jungle.<br />
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“One day after Brer Rabbit had fooled him with a calamus root Brer Fox went
to work and got some tar. He mixed it with turpentine,
and fixed up a little doll that he called a Tar-Baby.
He put a straw hat on the Tar-Baby and sat her in the
middle of the road, then hid in the bushes to see what
would happen.<br />
He didn’t have to wait long either, because Brer
Rabbit soon came pacing down the road as saucy as a jay-bird. Brer Fox,
he lay low. <br />
Brer Rabbit come prancing along until he spotted the
Tar-Baby. The Tar Baby, she sat there and Brer Fox
lay low.<br />
“Good morning,” said Brer Rabbit, “Nice
weather we’re having.”<br />
The Tar-Baby said nothing. Brer Fox laid low and grinned
an evil grin.<br />
Brer Rabbit tried again. “And how are you feeling
this fine day?”<br />
Brer Fox winked his eye slowly and laid low in the bushes,
and the Tar Baby, well, she said nothing.<br />
“How are you then? Are you deaf?” said Brer
Rabbit. “If you are, I can shout louder.”<br />
Tar-Baby stayed still, and Brer Fox, he lay low. <br />
“You’re stuck up, that’s what you are,”
said Brer Rabbit, “I’ll cure you, that’s
what I’ll do.” But Tar-Baby
said nothing.
<br />
“I’m going to teach you how to talk respectable
to people," said Brer Rabbit.
‘If you don’t take off that hat, I’m
going to beat you up”.<br />
Tar-Baby stayed still, and Brer Fox, he lay low.<br />
Brer Rabbit keep on asking, and the Tar-Baby kept on
saying nothing. <br />
Presently, Brer Rabbit drew back his fist and hit the Tar-Baby on the side of the head. His fist stuck and he couldn’t
get loose. The tar held him. But Tar-Baby, she stayed
still, and Brer Fox, he lay low.<br />
“If you don’t let me go, I’ll hit
you again,” said Brer Rabbit, and with that he swiped
again with the other hand, and that stuck. Tar-Baby said
nothing and Brer Fox, he lay low.<br />
“Let me go, or I’ll kick the stuffing out
of you,” said Brer Rabbit, but Tar-Baby said nothing.
She just hung on, and Brer Rabbit lost the use of his
feet in the same way. Brer Fox, he lay low. <br />
Then Brer Rabbit yelled out that if the Tar-Baby didn’t
turn him loose he’d head butt her side-on. So he
butted, and his head got stuck. Then Brer Fox sauntered
out, looking as innocent as could be.<br />
“Hiya, Brer Rabbit,” said Brer Fox. “You
look sort of stuck up this morning,” and then he
rolled on the ground, and laughed and laughed until he
could laugh no more. “You’ll have to have
dinner with me this time, Brer Rabbit. I’ve got
some calamus root, and I won’t take any excuses.”<br />
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<b>Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>A rewrite of the Tar-Baby story, as told by Uncle Remus.</b></div>
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This is one of many metaphorical stories written by American folklorist Harris. He wrote of his period, social circumstances, and many of his stories were very parable like. As an teenaged apprentice on a Georgia plantation he learned many of the oral traditions of the African slaves he worked with. And he recorded them and introduced them to American society with his books.<br />
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Are there things in this particular story for our era? Do we have Tar-Babies in our midst? What are some of the things our society has for us that might get us stuck? How about:<br />
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<b>1. </b><u>Entertainment?</u> Ask kids these days pop-culture questions or questions about things of import to us as citizens and which are they more informed after? Try that with many adults! What about video games and music? How much time is spent honing one's ability through involvement there? <u><i><b>So many are stuck in that Tar-Baby!</b></i></u><br />
<b>2. </b><u>Cell phones?</u> Go anywhere, what are people doing as they are walking or standing or <i><u>DRIVING!?</u></i> I go to the grocery store or a restaurant or stand in line anywhere and many are buried in their phones. I drive down the road and other drivers are texting! Wonderful... <u><i><b>So many are stuck in that Tar-baby!</b></i></u><br />
<b>3.</b> <u>Lobsters?</u> Put a bunch of lobsters in a big bucket and if one tries to get out what do the others do? They reach up to pull him down! None can escape the others! People can be like that. "Geeks" are expected to try in school but pay for it socially. But what of those others, not thought to be "geeky," who want to do well also? How are they treated by the lobsters? When some in certain groups want to do well in society and "succumb" to "the man," they are berated and name-calling results! By whom? The lobsters! <u><b><i>So many are stuck in that Tar-baby!</i></b></u><br />
<b>4.</b> <u>The unmotivated and uninspired?</u> What generation hasn't had these? But it seems so rife today among the young set. Personal direction, if present at all, sometimes has tunnel vision with focus on fitting into some fringe aspect of society - gangs, clubbing, tattoos, weird jewelry, living forever in Mom's basement, and obtaining "free" entitlements. And the trend toward legalizing "recreational" drugs isn't helping. Using the word "recreation" to describe certain drugs is part of the lure! There is benefit there? <b><i><u>So many are stuck in that Tar-baby!</u></i></b><br />
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Free enterprise participants can't get stuck in <b>Tar-babies.</b> They have to be on the move! They have to be<b> <a href="http://jaysfreeenterpriseblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/free-enterprise-requires-that-everyone.html"><span style="color: red;">a vibrant part of the system!</span></a> </b> For society to advance via free enterprise, for the general standard of living to improve via free enterprise, and for the economy to expand from here forward as it did in past decades via free enterprise, the populace (especially the rising generation) has to be educated, focused, goal-driven, moral and motivated! There is no time for any <b>Tar-baby</b> that might be in the road along the way. The enticing <b>Tar-baby</b> has to be avoided!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Free enterprise avoids the Tar-baby.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></div>
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"...no people in the
world have made such rapid progress in trade and manufactures
as the Americans. In the United States the greatest undertakings and
speculations are executed without difficulty, because the whole
population are engaged in productive industry, and because the
poorest as well as the most opulent members of the commonwealth
are ready to combine their efforts for these purposes. But what most astonishes me in the United States is not so
much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings as the
innumerable multitude of small ones. Almost all the farmers of
the United States combine some trade with agriculture. The Americans make immense progress in productive industry,
because they all devote themselves to it at once; and for this
same reason they are exposed to unexpected and formidable
embarrassments. As they are all engaged in commerce, their
commercial affairs are affected by such various and complex
causes that it is impossible to foresee what difficulties may
arise."<br />
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<b>Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)<br />from <u>Democracy in America,</u> Book II, Chapter 19</b></div>
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Tocqueville was a classical liberal, the equivalent of today's political conservative. He was sent by the French government to the United States in 1831 to study the prison system. He spent two years, spending very little time doing that, and most of his time traveling the country and examining what made Americans, and their unique form of democratic exceptionalism, tick.<br />
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His book, <b><u>Democracy in America</u></b>, was the result of those travels, and was published in 1835. I got it downloaded to my Kindle for free! It is a GOOD read!<br />
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He saw Americans as basically agricultural, but with a free enterprise spirit and energy unrivaled in his European travels and experience. Everyone was busy doing something! Everyone was finding a niche, and pursuing it. America, in his view and experience, was composed of "an innumerable multitude of small" businesses. Its people were indeed pursuing happiness. He was seeing private property rights at their best. Americans were increasing in value, and passing that value along to the next generation.<br />
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Isn't that true today? <br />
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The United States Constitution set up the <u>perfect venue</u> for
the natural development of free enterprise. Such freedoms, expressed as
God-given and natural rights, were never before pursued so universally by a people. This is
the essence of the "rugged individualism" and "American exceptionalism"
that we hear of today. Such exceptionalism is <b><i>NOT</i></b> that Americans are
somehow uniquely exceptional. Quite the contrary. We are as ordinary
as anyone else. But when given the freedom to pursue unique talents and
become unique individuals, and expressing ourselves via legally <b>PROTECTED</b> natural rights to do so, the nation flourished and became rich as its individual components, i.e.(id est, or "that is") its people, flourished and became rich. The ordinary can indeed do extra-ordinary things. This so-called political and economic "experiment" was <b>TRULY EXCEPTIONAL.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SUCH EXCEPTIONALISM </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WAS THE TRUE GENIUS OF THE</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> FOUNDING FATHERS!</b></span></div>
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Free enterprise folds naturally into this arena. It is the mother's milk of individual freedoms and the pursuit of happiness. It is, along with our other protected rights and freedoms, what makes this country tick.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>FREE ENTERPRISE HAS ITS OWN</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SPIRIT AND ENERGY. </b></span> </div>
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"...every individual necessarily labours to render the
annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed,
neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is
promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign
industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that
industry in such a manner as its produce may be
of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this,
as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an
end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for
the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he
frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he
really intends to promote it. I have never
known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."<br />
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<b>Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>from <u><i>An Inquiry Into the Natures and Causes of the Wealth of Nations </i></u></b></div>
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Adam Smith introduced the concept of "the Invisible Hand" into his economic thinking because he was a religious man. This application of the invisible hand to economics, indeed, in his thinking, into many aspects of human life, was consistent with his understanding of how God oversees the universe. In his thinking God, a benevolent, loving God, directs the universe in such a way as to maximize happiness for His children.<br />
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This must also be how the Invisible Hand of economies interacts with society. Each individual is striving to improve his condition, to gain in life, and to make more happiness for himself and his family. And while each must be doing this individually, he finds himself needing to exchange with others. In the myriads and millions of such exchanges, one to another and to another again, each is offering as much value as possible and hoping for similar value in return.<br />
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This is how the standard of living of societies improves and advances.<br />
<br />
Smith's thinking has caught on, with his Invisible Hand used as explanations for many things. People interact! And so often with one not knowing what another might be doing. But if each has the freedom, the <i><b>free enterprise,</b></i> to act in his own, individual best interests, what would come of society in general? Of course - things would get better. Happiness would be better maximized.<br />
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Each individual in the economic society is thus able to operate independently and intertwined. In Smith's words, each advances "by his own gain." And <b>THIS</b> is the invisible hand at work. While each is operating in his own self interest, each, at the same time, and perhaps not intentionally, is operating to benefit the whole.<br />
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Utter decentralization reigns! Contracts are implied in trade and individual interaction. Goods and services are offered, bought and sold, and each seeks his own. The self interest of "the butcher, the brewer, or the baker" brings the best it can for sale and exchange. And expectations arise not because of their "benevolence" ... and profit happens because the entrepreneur acts in regard "not to their humanity but to their self love." Self interest reigns on both sides - in the seeking and in the offering.<br />
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The buyer is seeking, and expecting, the cheapest price and the entrepreneur is seeking, and expecting, the most profit possible. This was treated in a post just a while ago entitled <a href="http://jaysfreeenterpriseblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/free-enterprise-always-goes-to-market.html"><b><span style="color: red;">Free Enterprise Always Goes To Market.</span></b></a><br />
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Is Adam Smith's Invisible Hand simplistic? No. It is attractive because of its simplicity!<br />
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<u>This is the thing that advocates so strongly <b>FOR</b> </u><u>free enterprise economics!</u><b></b><br />
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What can disrupt it? What Milton Friedman called the "invisible hand and foot." He said, "when government attempts to substitute its own judgments for
the judgments of free people, the results are usually disastrous. In
contrast to the free market's invisible hand, which <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>improves</i></span></b> the lives of people, the government's invisible foot <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>tramples</i></span></b> on people's hopes and destroys their dreams." (emphases mine)<br />
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<u>This is the thing that advocates so strongly <b>AGAINST</b> statism!</u> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free Enterprise Maximizes Happiness.</b></span></div>
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-66405681342829523082015-03-18T07:27:00.000-04:002015-03-22T15:55:50.262-04:00Free Enterprise Requires That Everyone Plays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Richard Cantillon (1680-1734)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a wonderful quote. It answers many questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes called the "Father of Economics," though that might be disputed by followers of other such "fathers," this is a most useful and applicable quote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What questions does it answer? Many!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><u>It answers the question of</u> "what might I do with my future?" How?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because <u>it answers the question of</u>, when one's traits and interests and skills are discovered, how one might consider what they do with their life. How?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because <u>it answers the question of</u> what one might do with one's education! How?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The goal of education is to learn to think for oneself.</b> In school we are taught different subjects; have to read things in those different subjects we might not otherwise read; have to do problem solving in different subjects that we may not enjoy or understand; find via this diverse experience what we would enjoy studying more about. The purpose of all that is to encourage us to think in different ways, and use our brains in different ways. And think for ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hopefully, through the experience of early education, we become a <b>MORE WELL-ROUNDED INDIVIDUAL.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And, hopefully, as we study a subject, whatever the subject, we learn to think as an expert in that subject might think! When an astronomer sees something through the Hubble telescope that no one has seen before, he/she can't run to a former teacher to ask what it is. That teacher wouldn't know! So, what to do? That astronomer must think like an astronomer would think! The astronomer must apply learning in astronomy to the problem/interest at hand, create analyses in experimental ways, and develop hypotheses or theories as regards that new thing. And, <b>AND</b>, any conclusions reached might change next year anyway with a new discovery! Which requires more "Ingenuity and Industry" by those in the field to further more learning and provide more understanding. And the beat goes on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From that early education, if we follow the Cantillon quote, one might seek further education to acquire more "time in training or most Ingenuity and Industry" as regards what one likes to study the most. We go to college, select a major, hopefully study and learn diligently so we can apply understanding to principles, and become one that thinks like an expert in that field, maybe even seeking further and further education. To quote a phrase, piling it higher and deeper later on. We might not even go to college, choosing instead to develop the skill or service we want to provide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, in the end, we would be gainfully employed, or employ ourselves, in our chosen field of endeavor, or service offered to others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How well are we paid? <b><i>We are paid based upon how hard it is to replace us!</i></b> We might find a niche that no one has found before. We might develop a good or service that no one has developed before. We might become better at our craft than anyone has become before. And as such we become more and more indispensable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">AND WE GARNER A BETTER INCOME.</span></b></span></div>
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"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."<br />
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<b>Murray Rothbard (1926-1995)</b></div>
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How often do we hear somebody in the news, be it a political leader or news person, who states something so absurd economically as if it is fact, and expects everyone to simply accept it?<br />
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These "straw men" are put before us all the time. "Economists all agree..." "Soccer moms want..." "The will of the people is..." "The ______ community is in agreement..." "The middle class..."<br />
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Any time you hear such talk you can discount it right away as incorrect and irresponsible. Why? <br />
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Because such talk is an economic fallacy and an error - the so-called "fallacy of composition."<br />
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That fallacy proposes that if one individual thinks so, all in that individual's group must think so. It is not only incorrect as a philosophy, but as a way of posturing any argument it is absurd.<br />
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Adam Smith, in Part 6 of his book<i> "</i><u><i>The Theory of Moral Sentiments</i></u><i>,"</i> states: "[The statist] seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great
society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon
a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the
chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the
hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human
society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own,
altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse [sic] to
impress upon it."<br />
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Good economics requires an analysis of the system, the entire system. Economics is indeed a study of systems! And the components of that system as well. And free enterprise helps the system to work more efficiently. <br />
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The fallacy of composition is a fallacy because the truth is that individuals will act as individuals! They will act in their own self interest. They don't necessarily act because their "group" does so. And their actions are <b>ENTIRELY UNPREDICTABLE</b> economically because economics has to look at the whole picture. An economist has to see the forest <u><i><b>and</b></i></u> the trees, so to speak, and never one in favor of the other.<br />
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Free enterprise does NOT favor one or the other. It can't. <br />
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And when the invisible hand is managing the many, many multiples of human behavior in a free market it does so indiscriminately. The most efficient means and the most efficient end is the goal.<br />
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"A product is no sooner created, than it, from that instant, affords a
market for other products to the full extent of its own value."<br />
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<b>Jean-Baptiste Say (1767 - 1832)</b></div>
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Can it be possible that a market exists before something is created?<br />
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This basic principle has been called "Say's Law of Markets." And it is essentially that. Markets are created when a product - a good or a service - hits the scene that everyone wants. <br />
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Ten years ago there may have been a demand for the small, pad computers. But none had been invented. None had been produced. The demand may have been hiding out there in some latent fashion, but until such a product was introduced there was no supply to service that latent demand.<br />
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People did not know they wanted a pad computer! But they did. And with nothing to satisfy that demand there was no market. The supply of pad computers, first brought to market in 2010, created an immediate demand and an immediate market. And it created all the substitutes, with more companies coming to market with their own versions of the pad computer. And then the subsequent generations of pad computers came forth with more of this and better of that.<br />
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As with all products this one will be superseded. Remember the big TV-like computers, called "mini-computers," which sat heavily on the desk? And how they got smaller in time? And were replaced by a "tower" which sat under the desk, connected to a smaller and thinner screen? Are they still around? Yes. Are they as popular as they were say twenty years ago? No. But they are cheaper and still available. And as far as computers go they do it all.<br />
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Think of all the computer products that had no market 20 years ago that have happened since! For instance, I can carry of library of tens of thousands of books in my pocket, and everywhere I go. I can break it out any time and access any one of those books and begin reading. It even remembers the last page read for me when I "open" the book. Some books are "free!" I can tell you, while I very much enjoy that today, I had no idea 20 years ago that I would like such a thing in my pocket. Or at my reading chair. Or in my glove compartment. I even have a cool leather cover to keep it safe while I carry it around! Like Say says above, the pocket library created a market for other complementary products - cases and such.<br />
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This is the very essence of free market economics. Boiling off all the water in an economic pot, what is left is the fact that until a good or service that everyone wants is brought to everyone's attention and a demand for it is created, no market exists. If a given good or service comes to market and becomes popular its supply, and continued supply, spurs market demand enough to encourage more and more popularity via more and more production. <br />
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Can there be a glut? For a short while. Over time nothing goes to waste as the price will lower and lower until eventually it is all gone. My little pocket library may one day be given out as a "free gift" by a certain store when people shop on a certain day. It will be a marketing gimmick, and then forgotten, and finally become the equivalent of a spinning wheel displayed in a museum. Say's Law says there is no glut forever. All production will eventually be acquired.<br />
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And the best way to acquire that good or service to market is with guidance by an invisible hand that directs the most efficient use of resources toward that end. Free enterprise makes those resources more used and more valuable.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free enterprise creates market value from market supply.</b></span></div>
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-59390791512207263862015-02-24T07:57:00.000-05:002015-02-25T07:04:07.285-05:00Free Enterprise Always Goes To Market<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Rope For Sale</b></div>
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<b>Otavalo, Ecuador, 1975</b></div>
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This photo looks cheap and unprofessional because I took it with my little Instamatic camera when I was a missionary in South America in the 1970s.<br />
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The photo is what you think it is.<br />
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The couple of people sitting in the center of the photo is selling wares at market.<br />
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They are selling rope. Of course, they made the rope. They have been making and selling rope for years. Rope is their business.<br />
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Instead of paying for a booth in the town marketplace, at the weekly market, they have set up shop in a gutter on a busy, popular road leading into town.<br />
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They have different styles of rope, with different thicknesses and strengths, made from an abundant, and free, local product - hemp. The ropes are strong and long lasting. I noticed this couple every week. They are at market. This is their marketplace, and their office. They are practitioners of free enterprise. Their lunch is in the small basket and they will be open for business all day. What they don't sell will be packed up at the end of the day and returned to inventory.<br />
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If any company wants to go to market with any product - good or service - and someone looked up in any basic marketing book how to do it, they would see something like the following:<br />
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<li>What product - good or service - will I sell?</li>
<li>What is my target market?</li>
<li>What price should I charge?</li>
<li>What should I do to advertise my product - good or service?</li>
<li>Where should I sell my product - good or service?</li>
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Every book's information would be basically the same in asking and answering those questions above. If any company wants to market a good or service it <b>HAS</b> to ask and answer those questions!<br />
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The couple sitting in the gutter above has <b>ASKED</b> <b>AND ANSWERED</b> those questions. They can make rope. They are set up where they will get good foot traffic. They are advertising their product two ways - it is laid out in the street and they have a reputation (they have been doing this for years). What is their price? You can see they are discussing that with their prospects. The price will vary depending on many things.<br />
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What price will be settled on? The <b><i>LOWEST</i></b> price the buyer can obtain and the <i><b>HIGHEST</b></i> price the seller can get. That is the essence of free market economics. That is the essence of business.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free enterprise antagonists would call it greed. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free enterprise protagonists would call it self interest.</b></span></div>
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That is the way it is. Whatever you call it, that is how economics works. <br />
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Do you see any implied force in this photo? Any gubment intervention? Anyone breaking the law?<br />
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The sellers are trying to provide themselves a living and the buyers are trying to satisfy a need with discretionary money. Each is left to decide if they want to proceed with the transaction. Whatever you call it, greed or self interest, this is what makes economics go round.<br />
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This very process works in a micro-economic fashion for small and large businesses and it works in a macro-economic fashion for countries. Each of the questions <b>ASKED</b> and <b>ANSWERED</b> above must be considered. If not, economics does not go round!<br />
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How well a company or country does in the marketplace depends on how well they answer the questions!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free Enterprise Always Goes To Market</b></span></div>
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-57871898156478718942015-02-17T06:36:00.002-05:002022-12-14T11:19:23.284-05:00Free Enterprise Makes Natural Resources More Abundantly Available<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no
matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using
resources now so that future generations can have them later is like
asking the poor to make gifts to the rich."<br />
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<b>Julian Simon (1932 - 1998)</b></div>
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All this talk about using up our natural resources.<br />
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We hear it and hear it and hear it.<br />
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Who says we will run out of natural resources? People who don't understand economics. Economics says that no natural resource will ever go to zero. We will <b>NEVER</b> use up any natural resource to the point that there is no more of it.<br />
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What, then, is economics? Economics is a social science that tries to understand all of the various processes that govern the production, govern the distribution, and govern the consumption of all the goods and services in a given economy.<br />
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Key word: <b>govern.</b> The key word everyone forgets is <b><i>govern!</i></b> There are true laws in the social science of economics! For example:<br />
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<li><u>There is the law of supply and demand</u>. If supply does this, demand will do that. They reach an equilibrium point. If someone tries to force a change in the supply or demand of a given good or service, they will each respond, and perhaps in ways not anticipated. It's a law. You can count on it.</li>
<li><u>There is the law of diminishing marginal utility</u>. Sounds like a fancy, schmancy term, but it isn't. Marginal utility is the gain from an increase or the loss of a decrease of something. The marginal utility of something, its usefulness, can diminish if there is too much of that something. If I have a small garden that needs water, there is great usefulness to a first bucket of water. Maybe a second or a third bucket is just as useful, but the one millionth bucket certainly has no use whatever, and is detrimental. It's a law. You can count on it.</li>
<li><u>There is the law of rent</u>. The economist David Ricardo demonstrated that rent is among the most firmly established laws of
economics. Rent, essentially, is the economic advantage, or
disadvantage, of using a given thing productively. That thing might be
land, labor, or even capital. Using a given factor of production, let's
say a farmer's capital, like a wagon, to haul his hay from the field to
the barn may not produce much capital gain for the farmer. But on days not needed for hauling hay, if the
wagon was dressed up and put at the side of a busy road, and used to
sell produce to passersby, the wagon's value increases, and returns that
value to the farmer. Ricardo said that is rent. It's a law. You can count on it.</li>
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See the very first post on this blog, written in August of 2011 entitled: <span style="color: red;"> <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://jaysfreeenterpriseblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/rent-is-return-to-any-factor-of.html"><span style="color: red;">Free Enterprise At Work</span></a>.</span> </b></span><br />
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So what is this idea that a given natural resource would never be used up? Is Julian Simon crazy? Jean-Baptist Say said much the same thing, known in economics as Say's Law. Basically that law is that a buyer's ability to buy is based on the buyer's successful past production for the marketplace. Resources, therefore, are never used up - substitutes will find a way.<br />
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So, the question was asked, is Julian Simon crazy? No, far from it. Nature utilizes this principle itself! What if a natural disaster like a forest fire caused by lightning or a volcano like Mount St. Helen blows up and destroys the natural forest nearby. What happens? Nature rebuilds itself. It takes time. But it rebuilds. (The same thing would happen to a jungle where all the trees are cut down by a lumber company. It will rebuilt itself. It takes time. But it rebuilds.)<br />
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What happens if an oil company uses up all the oil it can get to in a given drilled hole? The hole might be abandoned. But what happens over time? Over time many things can happen. <i><b>Free enterprise</b></i> will create new technologies to come forth that help the oil company get more oil out of the same hole. (Happening now.) Or <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> will find new ways to go get any oil that may be in a given area. (Happening now.) Or <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> will design new techniques to get oil from the area that could not previously been derived, like from inside the surrounding rock. (Happening now.) Or <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> finds cheaper and cheaper ways to create oil synthetically from other materials. (Happening now.)<br />
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Or, theoretically, all of the oil in the world becomes so scarce and becomes so expensive that substitutes are developed that are cheaper and the expensive oil that remains is never used up. <i><b>Free enterprise</b></i> will always find those substitutes! That is, if people and markets are free.<br />
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The Dr. Simon comment above is simple. It is a <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> comment! Where <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> exists markets have grown, those societies have gotten richer, and the people living there have enjoyed higher and higher standards of living. Where <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> does not exist none of that is encouraged.<br />
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Look around.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free enterprise makes natural resources</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> more abundantly available </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>and future generations richer.</b></span></div>
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-26663506443651002352015-02-03T07:48:00.001-05:002015-02-03T15:10:06.541-05:00Free Enterprise Doesn't Kill The Goose<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg</b></div>
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"A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich.<br />
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'Just think,' said the man's wife, 'If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster.'<br />
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'You're right,'said her husband, 'We wouldn't have to wait for the good to lay her egg every day.'<br />
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So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like every other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs."<br />
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<b>An Aesop fable (620BC - 564BC) </b></div>
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Telling such simple stories as these Aesop was able to lend his wisdom to the ages. Why do these stories last? Because they are so full of wisdom that can be applied in every age, and understood by people in many different cultures, that they are passed along and passed along.<br />
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Certainly this wisdom can be applied in a free enterprise way! Free enterprise could certainly be said to be the goose that supplies the golden eggs. Can a society becoming less and less free-enterprise oriented kill the goose? Can this magical goose we all benefit from be killed?<br />
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Our current entitlement society, and gubments, local, state and federal, want more eggs than are being laid by economic activity. They spend more and more eggs before they are laid. As eggs are removed from the system and used for things that do not produce more eggs, freedom is restricted, standards of living are reduced, and less and less is available for personal wants and desires. The spiral is down.<br />
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Two recent events combined to lead me to fear we are killing the goose more quickly than we might think, and leaving devastation in our wake for those who follow us.<br />
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<u><b>The first event:</b></u> our mail often goes to other households and the mail for other households often comes to us. This is nothing new, and probably the same for everyone. In our neighbor's mail coming to our house one day was a DVD entitled something like, "How To Get Free Money." Of course, the basic economic fallacy there is that something is free. There is no free lunch. Money has, that is <b>HAS,</b> to come from someone else if we are to get it. If someone thinks there are ways to get "free" money, they must realize that first it was taken from someone else. This sort of behavior, and agency after agency after agency that exist to "teach" people how to acquire other people's money, are killing the goose.<br />
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<u><b>The second event:</b></u> the other day I was driving to a home inspection. All during the days before we were warned about the substantial snowfall that would bury our area. We were doomed. As a result of this forecast (key word: forecast) all of the local gubment agencies and schools closed. State and federal agencies sent out similar warnings, giving people the option of whether they could go to work or not. All of this was in advance. We ended up getting 1" of snow. The county I live in has dozens of gubment agencies, and dozens of schools. How many thousands of people are employed by these entities? Driving by the empty parking lots of two county gubment offices and many schools I realized that these people all were enjoying a paid day off. My neighbors who work for state and federal agencies also stayed home, enjoying a paid day off. Those paid days off are laid and harvested golden eggs, all gone to waste.<br />
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<b>IN ADDITION, TWICE A SNOW TRUCK WENT UP MY STREET "PLOWING" THE SNOW THAT HAD ALREADY DISAPPEARED FROM THE STREET, AND SPREADING SALT. NOW REALLY, THAT WAS ENTIRELY UNNECESSARY. BUT STILL, I PAID FOR IT. I CONTRIBUTED TO THAT WASTE OF A GOLDEN EGG.</b><br />
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Where did those eggs come from? On the highway I noticed plumbing trucks, electrician trucks, HVAC technician trucks, etc., you name it, private trucks. All from <i><b>private</b></i> enterprises. They were all engaging in free enterprise. They don't have paid days off! But they provide paid days off for others.<br />
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Each day that this happens we are doing more and more to kill the goose. A larger and larger percentage of our society is not contributing to activity that creates the golden eggs. A larger and larger percentage of our society thinks it can get "free" money and is taking and consuming those golden eggs.<br />
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Are we killing the goose? None of that is free enterprise activity. It is the opposite. The opposite will kill the goose, albeit little by little, but it will eventually kill the goose. Statism will kill the goose. And the statist takers, and their taker constituencies, will run out of other people's money. And then the takers will blame the givers.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Free Enterprise Doesn't Kill The Goose</span></b></div>
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-54113323431054901132015-01-27T08:29:00.002-05:002015-01-27T11:29:20.389-05:00People Partnered With Free Enterprise Make Things Happen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a man named Arrow."<br />
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<b>Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)</b><br />
from his novel <u><i>Treasure Island</i></u></div>
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Not that the concept of this post is to extol pirates or piracy, because it is not. Simply stated, the point of this post is the idea of partnership.</div>
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Who would Long John Silver want to accompany him on his journeys, no matter what the journey is about? </div>
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He would want those who share is visions.<br />
He would want those who he can work with.<br />
He would want those who have what skills he doesn't.<br />
He would want those who can bring symbiosis to the table, where one plus one is more than two.<br />
He would want those who add their candle light to the other candles and make the fire brighter for all.</div>
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So, as to partnerships, this was suggested: "To get along in business, the partners should have different skill sets
that are complementary," said Issamar Ginzberg, a Brooklyn-based
strategy adviser to entrepreneurs. "Two people who are good with numbers
but bad at deadlines would be horrible. When they mismatch, they make a
much better pair. … (As) in marriage, opposites attract." </div>
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What are some famous free enterprise partnerships? The ones where opposites attracted, or symbiosis brought more to the whole?</div>
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<li>Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield - long-time friends who brought different angles to the same love for ice cream. Almost everyone has taken a bite of their ideas.</li>
<li>Bill Hewlett and David Packard - electronics techs who combined curiosity and management, beginning in a garage. Things added up very nicely.</li>
<li>Orville and Wilbur Wright - brothers whose mechanical abilities could be
applied to another idea and industry. We all know what happened then.
Even though death broke up the partnership, their business took off and
continues today.</li>
<li>Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger - one, the value hunter, combined with the other, the inter-disciplinary thinker, learned to pay fair prices for good products. The candle light from each has made the combined light much brighter.</li>
<li>Bill Gates and Paul Allen - combined computer genius aided by the negotiating genius of one with the innovation genius of the other. Again, long-time friends. Whose life haven't they influenced?</li>
<li>Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak - two friends early in life bringing
computer/electronic abilities together to take a bite from the same huge
Apple.</li>
<li>Jerry Yang and David Filo - they found the internet rodeo could be corralled and organized and made keywords a part of the Yahoo of life.</li>
<li>Sergey Brin and Larry Page - two students who were Google eyed, joined for conversational clashes, which spurred a friendship, and then a partnership, with one having the ability to mine for data and the other the ability to place a value on how some things are perceived by many as important. </li>
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Long John Silver knew what he wanted, and where to go to get it. He needed some help along the way. And he brought together his crew. So often the end is not seen in the beginning, but for him, at the end of the journey, X marked the spot.<br />
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Often one alone in a business endeavor is not enough to make it happen. But in the right environment, a free-enterprise environment, one conducive to innovation and expansion, capitalism can make the combined effort more expansive and more influential than anyone had previously experienced.<br />
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And sometimes, just sometimes, we get to take a bite of a free sample - here I sampled the Triple Caramel Chunk. Alas, there is no such thing as a free lunch, or even a free sample. In this case the factory tour did have a fee attached!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">People partnered with free enterprise make things happen.</span></b></div>
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The feudal economic system carried the load for much of the Middle Ages. It was the ruling economic system on many continents. It took hold, and spanned the 5th to 12th centuries, more or less!</div>
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What replaced it? Free market economics - capitalism - free enterprise!</div>
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It is said that William the Conqueror (to whom I am said to be distantly related) brought feudalism to England to create loyalty. Taking over as he did made him king over the land. As the king, he was therefore responsible for his new subjects, those who lived in his new territory. The system is such that as a king died, one of his sons or other relations would take over, and this kingship was passed along to subsequent generations. </div>
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William's territory would today be called Great Britain, but was then a disparate group of disparate areas and disparate people. So, how does a king bring all that together?</div>
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He buys them off! What does the new king William have to buy off loyalty? Land. So he appoints, or selects, barons to manage his business, awarding them land for such loyalty. Barons were often selected from the family tree.</div>
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The barons, in turn, are responsible for that area so granted. Loyalty is created by them in much the same way, further down the line through the selection or appointment of knights. The knights are the local managers, with the peasant rabble as their responsibility. They are also the soldiers in the kingdom, even with power to recruit the army. The knights were given land for their responsibility, with a small portion of it for personal use, and this entire grant would incorporate that local area of responsibility, along with the peasants that came with it.</div>
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The peasants were the local "blue collar" working class. The peasantry had almost no ability to move up in the system. They were without any rights, except what privileges that were allowed them by the local knight in charge. Their work was forced. They worked the land. They worked for the king. They had no ownership of anything. </div>
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This began to change in 1215 when a group of nobles forced, that's <u>forced</u>, King John to sign the Magna Carta, or "Great Charter." It began to change rights, incorporating new rights for the "citizenry," and even forced the king to obey some laws. With time more and more ways were found to limit the powers of the king. Councils developed, eventually into a representative Parliament, and the lawmaking began. Kings had less and less ability to just do things - they needed Parliament's support.</div>
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The "technical" definition of free enterprise is where goods and services are priced in an economy based on the laws of supply and demand (yes, LAWS), and the market-perceived benefits or quality of those goods and services. Prices eventually reach a maximum point of equilibrium and are sustained by competitive market forces. Competition can lower prices by making goods and services more prevalent and therefore less expensive. Free enterprise demands competition and private ownership of one's idea, good or service.</div>
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Feudalism has not died, however. It is alive and well in the gubment bureaucracy! People come to Washington, set up their territories based on political "grants," and go about protecting it. They want to live on in perpetuity! And Washington becomes a career. And the bureaucrats become permanent fixtures. The Ben Franklin statement that visitors and fish begin to stink after three days could not be more applicable!</div>
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Happening to things. That is very much a part of the philosophy of the free enterprise thinker.</div>
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And a free-market environment which allows the free enterprise thinker to think and become is essential to the process! And the advancement of product development, and innovation, and production, and marketing, and - well, you name it. Think about all of the <i><b>"ands"</b></i> that follow.</div>
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One big<b><i> "and" </i></b>is the risk involved in all of that. Risk may be the biggest reason that people of accomplishment, those free enterprise entrepreneurs of accomplishment, do not sit back and let things happen to them. If an entrepreneur wants his product/idea to come to the market there must be a lot of making things happen! </div>
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Look around! This only happens in free enterprise spheres. Where is the new thinking, new science, new tools, new ideas, new music, new art, new <b><i>CONTRIBUTION,</i></b> the new whatever (!), that advances everyone, that lifts everyone, that improves the lives of everyone, coming from? All of the controlled people? The people under the "gentle care" of dictators? The economies where the wondrously-smart bureaucrats make all the decisions for the rest of their societies? </div>
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Where do so many in the world go to get educated? Go for training in things like medicine, aerospace, global business, technology, or you name it? Where do people go to advance themselves as individuals, as world participants who make a difference, as members of a worldwide, corporate team?</div>
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Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-64100704799456868402015-01-07T06:19:00.001-05:002015-01-21T10:02:06.409-05:00Free Enterprise Does Great Good To The People<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">"There have been abuses connected with the accumulation of wealth;
yet it remains true that a fortune accumulated in legitimate business
can be accumulated by the person specially benefited only on condition
of conferring immense incidental benefits upon others. Successful
enterprise, of the type which benefits all mankind, can only exist if
the conditions are such as to offer great prizes as the rewards of
success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The captains of industry who have driven the railway systems across
this continent, who have built up our commerce, who have developed our
manufactures, have on the whole done great good to our people. Without
them the material development of which we are so justly proud could
never have taken place."</span><br />
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<b>Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) </b></div>
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The term "Robber Baron" is an interesting one. Of course it's a term intended as a slant, intended as a swipe at reality, and intended as a means to sway readers of history away from capitalism as a viable form of economic development.<br />
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But how did the west, how did the United States, grow so rich, and so fast?<br />
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Because monopolistic capitalists preyed on the poor and built huge business entities by suppressing all advantages to the ignorant and the slow?<br />
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No, not really. Were there abuses, a word used above by Mr. Roosevelt? Certainly. There always are. And the gubment provided a backlash toward what they perceived as monopolistic growth by trying to crush it with antitrust legislation. What that succeeded in doing was breaking up a whole into smaller parts which each grew larger than the previous whole. But that is another story.<br />
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The brilliant organizers of the American industrial revolution did so because they took advantage of new business organization techniques, and took huge risks. They developed technologies and utilized natural resources to such an extent that out of nothing that previously was they created a vibrant something! Not only did their businesses (and industries) grow, but all of the ancillary businesses (and industries) grew as well. Think, for example, of all the towns, and businesses in those towns, that sprung up because of thousands of miles of railroad tracks that connected left to right, and up to down? Goods and services could move from place to place, and thrive.<br />
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These Business Barons took advantage of free-market economics, which they called "enterprise," and combined it with the politics of freedom and rugged individualism, attracted a work force made up of natural-born citizens and immigrants who came to share in this growth, and utilized the diversity of skills (not heritage) and knowledge and energy of this work force, so well that these Fortresses of Free Enterprise made lives better for everybody. They were <b>EXCEPTIONAL</b> at it.<br />
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If these immigrants were so badly mistreated why did so many keep coming for decades to take advantage here of what they could not take advantage of from where they came? These immigrants kept coming because the word got out! It was better here! Was the work hard? Yes. Did they deal with personal and religious prejudices? Yes. Was there severe mistreatment at times? Yes. Was the life easy? No. But opportunity was in abundance, and futures were staked.<br />
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No group of men, these Business Barons, put a bigger stamp on the cultural and charitable and educational institutions in our society. They established museums, art galleries, cultural halls, theaters, schools and universities, libraries, church buildings, orchestras, and other social and educational entities in virtually every city in which they prospered. Indeed, no group of men in history has contributed more to these kinds of social things, and in particular to charities, than this group of men.<br />
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These so-called "Captains of Industry" created extraordinary economic privilege for all. And how? By employing an uncommonly forceful defense of laissez faire gubment policies and the protection of private property rights to form these new economic systems. The means of finding, developing, producing, combining, transforming, manufacturing, transporting, communicating and financing a nation's natural resources came to be. This is what T.R. meant by "material development" in the quote above, about which "we are so justly proud."<br />
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And the west, and the country, and the people, grew rich. Let's keep it that way.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Free enterprise does great good to the people. </span></b></div>
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-87376328254524786602014-12-30T05:05:00.001-05:002023-10-07T18:02:22.702-04:00Free Enterprise Produces The Want For Consumption<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former."<br />
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<b>John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)</b></div>
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Isn't that interesting? This sounds suspiciously like supply-side economics.<br />
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As we know that consumption makes up the better part of Gross Domestic Product (what a country produces in a year), and some say it's over 60%, how does that consumption come about unless there is something to consume?<br />
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So the question is, what is the best means of getting something to consume?<br />
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What kind of economies do it better? Controlled economies or free-market economies? It's the new/old debate all over again - socialism or capitalist free enterprise?<br />
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Look at history. Look around the world. How are the countries controlled by dictators and bureaucrat planners doing? How has the U.S. been doing these past few years while sinking deeper and deeper into socialist planning? <br />
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What does the future hold for growth, and investment? What has made up a larger and larger portion of the GDP in the past few years? Production (and therefore consumption) or gubment spending?<br />
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Even though productivity has been redefined by the gubment planners, and GDP has been redefined by the gubment planners, and unemployment has been redefined by the gubment planners, ad nauseum.<br />
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Why all the changes? To rewrite history! If history can be rewritten (and by history we mean back to 1929) then the current condition can be redefined! It's simple!<br />
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GDP was never intended to measure the economy's well being, but since WWII that is pretty much how it has been used. And the contents that go into it's measurement are a bit like a soup recipe. But the soup recipe had not changed until the last couple of years! Now new ingredients are being put into the soup! But these are not substantial new things. "They" want it to appear like real "investment." But instead, it's a bit like adding smoke. Better put - it's a bit like adding smoke and mirrors. And to add to the fun, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...<br />
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What's new in the GDP soup pot? Such important criteria as adding Hollywood royalties, and revenues from scientific R&D. Real investment, don'tchano! You want to pump up GDP, how about a sugar high? But the sugar high has to be redefined way back. If not adding it now doesn't look right. The economic GPS is being force to, um, recalculate.<br />
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But why the sugar? To cover up the severe unemployment circumstance that is still anemic even though <b><i>IT</i></b> has been redefined! To paraphrase one economist, whose name sounds a bit like Shrugman, we are creating a permanent class of jobless Americans. How can they consume if they are jobless? Easy - what they consume is magically provided! They are entitled to it, after all. And the rest of us can only shrug.<br />
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But again, why the sugar? Because if the GDP looks sweet the cattle in the pen won't take so much notice. Gee, doesn't that sound a little like how the wondrous health care system was foisted upon us? Truth can't be a part of the mix or the agenda won't get passed? Boy, that "revelation" got quickly swept under the rug!<br />
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But will adding the smoke and mirrors to the soup pot, the so-called sugar high, spur production? <u>Think carefully</u>. With so many jobless or underemployed (notice all the part-time jobs "created" that are counted to sound like full-time jobs?) how much money will there be for the cattle in the pen to spend on, well, on production? <u>Think carefully</u>. Will those having to pay abnormally huge premiums and deductibles for their new and wondrous health care plans (mostly to fund those who will be "subsidized") have discretionary incomes to be buying and buying all the new production? <u>Think carefully</u>. <br />
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So, Mr. Mill has it right. How would it be said today? Let's see - how about, "If you like your slow economy, you can keep it!" <br />
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How about a clever twist on the quote above?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Free enterprise produces </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">the want for consumption! </span></b> </div><p>
</p><p>Mill was one of the most influential political economists of his century. He certainly demonstrated that supply-side economics grew economies. A very good book, a collection of his writings, can be found <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/John-Stuart-Mill-Collection-Utilitarianism/dp/B0851MWTJM/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1F0LIS5LNXYS2&amp;keywords=john+stuart+mill&amp;qid=1696715663&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=john+stuart+mill%252Cstripbooks%252C97&amp;sr=1-4&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywebsi0b7788-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=0e4f4b2516ff67cf8d7b30d42f862d5b&camp=1789&creative=9325"" target="_blank">here</a></u></b></span>. </p><p><br />
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<br /></p>Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-82356862885045630262014-12-23T07:45:00.000-05:002014-12-23T07:45:13.154-05:00Free Enterprise And Self Expression Go Hand In Hand.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greater opportunity for self expression."<br />
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<b>Lawrence Fertig (1898 - 1986)</b></div>
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Notice the key word there - greater.<br />
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There is <i><b>greater</b></i> opportunity for self expression in a free enterprise condition. And he says that is "a" virtue, meaning one of many, "a virtue of the free enterprise system."<br />
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If history's best and brightest have shined in free enterprise economies, it is because there they were left free to express themselves.<br />
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If history's best and brightest inventions and innovations shined in free enterprise economies, it is because there they were left free to be expressed!<br />
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The idea in a free enterprise system is to put yourself out there. Take a risk, find a way to introduce an idea (in the form of good or service) and express it! See if others have the same reaction to receiving it as the purveyor of the idea thought they would! <br />
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Sometimes it wins and sometimes it loses. But at least, AT LEAST, in a free enterprise economy there is the environment in which to try. If a bureaucrat or agency decides what will be offered, there is little room for invention or innovation. There is a <b><i>"lesser</i></b> opportunity for self expression," to paraphrase Fertig's quote above.<br />
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History has shown us consistently that this is the case.<br />
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In fact, in a command and control economy, and name your label - socialist, communist, fascist, and the innocuous "managed" - self expression cannot be tolerated. The gig is that everyone be the same! Well, except for a certain few. The certain few are the elect, the chosen, the put above and the wondrously smart. To describe this condition, one author conceived of an <b><i><u>Animal Farm</u></i></b> and barnyard and called those self chosen the "two legs." <br />
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At first the Two Legs were really four legs, like the other animals, and criticized the humans controlling them - the humans who walked on two legs. But then some of the four legs who decided that they were indeed elect, chose, put above and wondrously smart needed to find a way to set themselves apart and they did so by walking on two legs. <br />
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<b>AT THAT POINT SOME ANIMALS PORTRAYING THE 'TWO-LEG' CONCEPT </b></div>
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And walking on four legs was said to be not so good. At least not any longer. And those four legs all needed to conform, and be the same. There was to be no self expression among them.<br />
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There <b><i>COULD</i></b> be no self expression among them! That was not a part of the formula! They were not free. And self expression was not a virtue the four legs enjoyed. Their ability to express themselves, in the form of songs and chants, was controlled by the Two Legs. Everything was Two Leg Approved!<br />
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The brilliance of the simple quote at the start is in its simplicity. Virtues abound when there is free enterprise. Such a concept, and therefore the virtues, extends far beyond the economic aspects. It extends into the very fabric of the society. Everyone is made free and can enjoy freedom's gift.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Period.</b></span></div>
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-48178032943498067502014-12-15T04:44:00.001-05:002014-12-15T05:27:54.565-05:00Free Enterprise Encourages The Proliferation Of The Extraordinary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."<br />
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<b>Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)</b></div>
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While describing himself politically as an "anarchist and socialist," Hubbard apparently understood that free enterprise is the way to go in business!<br />
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Going into business with John D. Larkin, he helped to found The Larkin Soap Company in 1875. The company was innovative in many way, including being one of the pioneers in the mail-order business. This method of sales soon became known as "the Larkin method."<br />
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The Larkin method involved two things - door-to-door sales and mail-order sales, both of which had "premiums" attached.<br />
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A premium consisted of soap which came in its own box. They produced three soaps - a so-called "Sweet Home" yellow laundry soap and a bathroom soap, called Oatmeal Creme. A color picture of the company's logo came in every box, and a certificate for a free gift.<br />
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The premiums soon became an important part of the business. Hubbard proposed making the mail orders smaller, offering only three cakes of soap. The premium that came with the next order of bath soap was a handkerchief, towels with the laundry soap or one-cent coins. The soap packages were sold for 10 cents, so this amounted to a 10% premium. The idea took off.<br />
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Soon the Larkin Company became one of the first large-scale manufacturers to
eliminate their wholesalers, retailers, salesmen, and brokers. This was quite innovative!<br />
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Hubbard then introduced a "combination pack" and a $10 box of soaps. It contained enough laundry and bath soap to last a family about a year. The $10 was roughly the equivalent of one week's pay. So the premium included with the purchase amounted to $10, and could be redeemed for any of the then hundreds of products in the Larkin catalog. The Larkin idea crystallized into a company motto: "From Factory-to-Family: Save All Cost Which Adds No Value." Selling the products directly to the consumer like this the savings could be passed on to the consumer, so purchasers felt like the products were "free."<br />
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Further, the Larkin Company introduced cooperative buying clubs, and consumers felt a part of the family. Called "The Larkin Club," soon it allowed consumers to purchase products on an installment plan, with interest attached, and you can see the development of what is so common in today's business environment. Small Larkin Clubs developed in towns and neighborhoods where 10 families could each contribute a dollar to join their own little club and enjoy club savings and their own special club product savings and premiums.<br />
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Catalog offerings expanded to include "pure" foods, glassware, leather goods, pottery and furniture. This became a huge part of the marketing plan and helped the company survive the economic downturn of 1893.<br />
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The company peaked in sales in 1920, to an eventual low in 1939, and done in by the depression it ceased operations in the 1940s. Among the corporate changes it introduced to its employees, and American business, included paid vacations, a thrift plan, life insurance, medical benefits for illnesses, tuition for attending night school, free coffee, lunch, and an annual summer picnic. It even created its own chapter of the YWCA in 1905. Quite innovative!<br />
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No anarchy or socialism here! The success of mail order as a marketing idea was soon picked up by many other companies. Its other ideas are rife in our modern marketing and sales companies. Elbert Hubbards' ideas and innovations extraordinarily changed the business climate nationwide. His statement above rings true today, for people and machinery.<br />
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-61433500745923372452014-11-18T07:08:00.000-05:002020-03-12T16:24:14.776-04:00Free Enterprise Creates More Efficiently, And More Cheaply, And More Abundantly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right
to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands are
properly his.”<br />
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<b>John Locke (1632 - 1704)</b></div>
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Protecting the individual from tyranny and protecting individual rights is the very basis behind the idea which established the United States of America.<br />
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Private property, including the property of the person, is integral to that idea.<br />
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What is the point of coming up with an idea, developing it, creating a new product or service, and risking one's fortune to implement it into the market place, only to have it acquired and stolen by a tyrant? <br />
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And what if that tyrant is indeed the gubment, or gubment-sanctioned business?<br />
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This is the very basis of natural rights, God-given, Constitution-protecting, natural rights. Life, liberty, pursuing happiness, self preservation and protection - natural rights. <br />
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Natural rights are natural! They simply are. They are not created by the human mind, or laws, or regulations, or somebody's idea of how others should behave. They simply are.<br />
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Natural rights are also the very basis behind the idea of free enterprise and free-market economics.<br />
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We own our ideas, in the natural rights sense!<br />
We own our liberty, in the natural rights sense! <br />
We own our persons, in the natural rights sense!<br />
We own our happiness, in the natural rights sense!<br />
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They are private, they are protected, and they are God given.<br />
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Business works better when it is free to act. Does that mean with impunity, stepping unfairly on any slower slug that gets in its way? Of course not.<br />
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We are a society based on the rule of law. Laws are to define limits, and provide guardrails preventing the over reaching of some who think it's their "right" to smash another. We have no right to smash another.<br />
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There must be a careful balance, however, between those rights to act for oneself and those laws which limits such actions. Some behavior is unnatural, and some laws which limit behavior are unnatural. Laws should never be unnatural. Laws can and should flow freely, naturally, and not be an unfair imposition of feelings. If my competitor for a very similar product or service to mine is gathering more market share, I am in no position to demand a law to hold him back. My competitor should be able to act freely in an environment so long as it is lawfully fair.<br />
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When gubments choose an industry for political gain (pick your industry) and support and sustain it, and at the same time prevent and hold down another industry of lesser political gain (pick your industry) it is not lawfully fair. It is unnatural. It leads to cronyism. It is the beginning of tyranny, if not tyranny itself.<br />
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If one industry provides the same ends more efficiently, more cheaply, and to more people than another, the dictates of the natural course of property rights and God-endowed rights would say to go on! What is gained by holding it back?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Free enterprise creates more efficiently and more cheaply, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">and more abundantly.</span></b></div>
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<br />Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-1815157111362125382014-11-11T07:29:00.000-05:002014-11-11T09:03:28.044-05:00Free Enterprise Provides Stuff You Do Need, And Plenty Of It<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span>Stuff I don't need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stuff settin'
out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uncle John.”<br />
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<b>John Steinbeck (1902-1968) - from </b><u><b>The Grapes of Wrath</b> </u></div>
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Does that quote not just comment on the human condition? Is that not a great free enterprise quote?</div>
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Uncle John is just like the rest of us. How many of us have stuff in our homes that we bought but don't need? Buying it was a whim. It was an impulse buy. </div>
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Notice how some things in stores are put right where you walk in or on the way to the cash registers? The stores are hoping for impulse buying! And they're good at it.</div>
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We all have our definition of rich. Be it income or what is put away "in the bank," we all seem to have our definition of rich.</div>
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Reading this you might have yours, and I bet it differs from mine. And the other guy's.</div>
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As to this being a good free enterprise quote, why not? What does free enterprise do? It provides opportunity to offer "stuff" - goods and services - to a market hopefully full of buyers who will want that stuff.</div>
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And sometimes the stuff is really dumb, or offered at a prime moment in time during which it would be purchased. We look back on some fad purchases now and really wonder why.</div>
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Remember the Pet Rock? Mood rings? Go Go Boots? Flower stickers? Did you ever buy Sea Monkeys? I HAD to have an ID bracelet in junior high school. I still have it! I'm going to bet, but don't know, that the multi-colored, cover-the-entire-body-with-tattoos fad will upset a lot of people in a few years who have them now. Or the huge-hole earrings.</div>
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Some fad purchases seem to hang on. Who doesn't have the big nose with black mustache and glasses combo? Go on, admit it.</div>
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That's what free enterprise is all about! The freedom to offer a good or a service and a free market responds. Socialist-depressed societies don't seem to come out with too much of those faddish things. They have enough problems coming up with enough basic consumer goods and services, like toilet paper, or healthy meat, or medicine. There is no socialist world-wide contribution of inventions and improvements because there is little basic. When you can't provide the basics, how can there be contribution to the world?</div>
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Free enterprise provides stuff you don't need, "stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it." Not only that, but</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Free enterprise provides stuff you do need, and plenty of it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666600; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Einstein read a different writing on the wall and was smart enough not to return to Germany, settled in the United States, and became a naturalized citizen in 1940. Many German scientists fled Germany as well. They had lost their civil service jobs, including teaching in universities. Despite the huge brain drain it would cause, the new anti-Semitic laws forced them out of their jobs. </span><span style="color: #666600; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">It's said
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Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198746712760646904.post-2628143900070411132014-10-28T09:37:00.001-04:002021-06-27T18:43:03.011-04:00Free Enterprise Is Not A Scam Or A Big Can Of Spam<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Think about a can of SPAM!</b></span></td></tr>
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Words mean things.<br />
Concepts mean things.<br />
Ideas mean things.<br />
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People try to spin word meanings, or make others think words mean things that they don't, but the words, concepts and ideas still mean what they mean.<br />
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And meanings change over time! It isn't spin - that's what language does! When I was a young Boy Scout I liked spam! It was a great, campfire breakfast food. Now that I am an old curmudgeon I don't like spam so much. The meaning has changed.<br />
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Now an application, or "app," isn't what I do to apply for <u>something</u> necessarily. It can also mean that I am searching for <u>something</u> that conveys another <u>something</u> to me electronically. And now "swiping" <u>somethin</u>g, like my credit card, is an action business demands we do.<br />
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But, some definitions that have always been still are.<br />
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In my college economics dictionary, which I still have, but don't always refer to, there are definitions that apply today. For example,<br />
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<i><b>FREE ENTERPRISE - </b></i><span class="oneClick-link">an</span> <span class="oneClick-link">economic</span> <span class="oneClick-link">and</span> <span class="oneClick-link">political</span> <span class="oneClick-link">doctrine</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">holding</span> <span class="oneClick-link">that</span> <span class="oneClick-link">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link">capitalist</span> <span class="oneClick-link">economy</span> <span class="oneClick-link">can</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">regulate</span> <span class="oneClick-link">itself</span> <span class="oneClick-link">in</span> <span class="oneClick-link">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link">freely</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">competitive</span> <span class="oneClick-link">market</span> <span class="oneClick-link">through</span> <span class="oneClick-link">the</span> <span class="oneClick-link">relationship</span> <span class="oneClick-link">of</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">supply</span> <span class="oneClick-link">and</span> <span class="oneClick-link">demand</span> <span class="oneClick-link">with</span> <span class="oneClick-link">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">minimum</span> <span class="oneClick-link">of</span> <span class="oneClick-link">governmental</span> <span class="oneClick-link">intervention</span> <span class="oneClick-link">and</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">regulation.</span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available"><i><b>SOCIALISM -</b></i></span><span class="oneClick-link"> </span><span class="oneClick-link">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">theory</span> <span class="oneClick-link">or</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">system</span> <span class="oneClick-link">of</span> social organization <span class="oneClick-link">that</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">advocates</span> <span class="oneClick-link">the</span> <span class="oneClick-link">vesting</span> <span class="oneClick-link">of</span> <span class="oneClick-link">the</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">ownership</span> <span class="oneClick-link">and</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">control</span> <span class="oneClick-link">of</span> <span class="oneClick-link">the</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">means</span> <span class="oneClick-link">of</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">production</span> <span class="oneClick-link">and</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">distribution,</span> <span class="oneClick-link">of</span> <span class="oneClick-link">capital,</span> <span class="oneClick-link">land,</span> <span class="oneClick-link">etc.,</span> <span class="oneClick-link">in</span> <span class="oneClick-link">the</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">community</span> <span class="oneClick-link">as</span> <span class="oneClick-link">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">whole. (FYI - Marx said that socialism was simply a temporary middle step between the demise of capitalism and the implementation of communism.)</span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">Even in the definitions spin is at play! Notice <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> is "economic and political <u>doctrine</u>," and <i><b>socialism</b></i> is "social <u>organization</u>." </span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">Yes, <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> is something that is adhered to or believed, like a religious doctrine, and <i><b>socialism</b></i> is a benign attempt to organize a community!</span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">And then come the organizers trying to wrest the free-market aspect from the system and impose what they "feel" should be regulated in a free-market aspect system. And all the while still saying they advocate and promote the free market! </span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">So, to sum it up, <b>AND ALL THIS DESPITE PROFOUND HISTORY TO THE OPPOSITE</b>, the organizers want all to know that the free market cannot regulate itself, free enterprise practitioners certainly cannot regulate the "community" ownership "as a whole," and they, (the ubiquitous <b>THEY</b>) are in charge of bringing bigger and better and fairer and more wonderful to us all. There is never any force here, or ever "the big lie."</span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">Let me paraphrase, from the organizers we hear - if you like your <i><b>free enterprise</b></i> you can keep it, everything we have ever wanted will be brought to each one of us more abundantly and more cheaply, and we have to pass humongous laws implementing <b><i>socialism</i></b> so we can find out what's in the laws because, after all, you didn't and can't build that.</span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">Oh, and we must love the former <i><b>FOUR LEGS</b></i> in the barnyard who have appointed themselves the new <b><i>TWO LEGS</i></b> in the barnyard, so they (the ubiquitous <b>THEY</b>) can direct the rest of us incompetent <i><b>FOUR LEGS</b></i> in the barnyard, who are expected to follow, obey, believe, and chant the mantras of the newly self-appointed <b><i>TWO LEGS</i></b> in the barnyard. <b>THEY </b>are the smartest, ever.</span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available">What a diaper load! What a scam and a big can of spam!</span><br />
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Free enterprise is not a scam or a big can of spam.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available"><br /></span>Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13892573340399323260noreply@blogger.com0