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I guess Michael S. Malone is stupid then?

Good point, now what are you going to do with your business degree?

Fire all my employees and shut down the company. Take a long vacation. Then get an easy job with moderate pay and a lot of vacation time.

A guy could work long hours and employ people and struggle and risk to try to make money. But what's the point if he only gets to keep a tiny part of it? Why not take the capital and invest it in a country that still allows people to succeed? Why not give up the extra work for the government's benefit and just enjoy some leisure? Sure it doesn't employ anyone or produce anything, but why should we want goods produced or people employed?

Read the Victor Davis Hanson article. It tells an easy-to-understand story about an electrician.

No, it won't be a problem.

There will be very, very few new startups in the US. And many of the existing startups will shut down. There's just not much point in starting a business in the US any more.

- IPOs used to be plentiful, but that was before Sarbanes-Oxley made going public astronomically expensive.
- The government is sucking up most of the country's available capital [to buy votes] for stimulus and other government spending, leaving less available for business growth.
- The new stock option rules more-or-less preclude giving lower-level employees company stock so they share in the success of the company.
- Even for those that do see success, the tax rate will be 60-70% in a few years, so they won't be able to keep much of what they make. They won't be able invest the money in new startups because the taxes will take too much and there will be none left over.
- And don't forget that everyone knows businesses are villains and rich businessmen are hated. Why subject yourself to all that for such low after-tax gains?

See this article by Victor Davis Hanson.
See this article by T. J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor.
See this article by Michael S. Malone.

It's not really the land of opportunity any more -- not unless you know just the right people in government or the environmental industrial complex to steer you an earmark. And even those will run out in a few years after all the money is spent and all the output from the country's slowly-declining future production is borrowed and spent.

There will be plenty of vacant data center space.

Record of US attempt to copy this - Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq.

And instead it has become Stalin

I think teaching the "classics" is a bad approach to begin with. The classics are so out-of-touch with modern society and culture that the qualities that made them great at the time are almost completely lost on modern students unless they also invest huge amounts of time understanding the language and culture of the era.

They are not out of touch with modern society, because so much of human society never changes. People are no more nor less pious, brutal, kind, evil, wise, or merciful than they ever were. Many things stay the same, even such contemporary things as the War on Terror have uncanny analogues to past conflicts. The classics, by keeping the universe of discourse in the past, reveal what is timeless and universal about the human experience. You learn that some things never change.

Its interesting that some stupid internet post that I have failed to include is to serve as the be all to end all evidence for you in this matter rather than the rows of crosses and other grave markers of dead american soldiers that dot the European landscape.

    Typical intellectual hogwash! The dead dont tell lies, only blowhards like you do. Do you think all truth only exists in books and if you did not read it somehwere, it must not be true, did not happen, does not fit a reality resembling yours? Typical!

    It simply illustrates the lack of depth you posses and the complete unwillingness on your part to even admit your argument is a of 4th grade caliber. Your family who served are probably a) rolling in their graves or b)in for a rude awakening.

      Your family is not the only one who gave blood for this precious gift, the USA, if your an American in the first place since for all I know, you could be posting from anywhere and probably are in Holland, Spain or France or something. That would explain it!

    Anyhow, your swimming in the River DeNial, enjoy!

Here is your stupid fucking article-
An excerpt-
Yet this litany is ancient history now. So is the record of America's role as savior since World War II -- the Marshall Plan, protection of Europe from Soviet Communism, American support for German unification, our leadership in NATO, pledging our cities to save Europe from Soviet nuclear blackmail, and the current protection of Europe itself. Blah, blah, blah -- we've all heard it ad nauseam and its recitation leads us nowhere.
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson040204. html

        Its a recitation that leads us nowhwere because of cowardly fucks like you who act as invalidators at every turn, deny history and twist contemporary events to suit their conspiracies or revisionist history all in an effort to deny and marginalize the USA and its sacrfices, current and historic, for whatever of a million twisted reasons.

          Your necon insults dont faze me, I am a Neocon now and there is no turning back and there are millions like me and we elected a cowboy to run roughshod over you and yours and will continue to in order to prevent YOU and those who think like YOU from ever getting traction ever again regardless of what the media tells you.

Get used to it!

This really has taught me how fair and balanced slashdot is... I read that and it is preaching to the choir but I'm curious what you intelligent historians think. http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson091005. html Ooh, I have a degree in history, whatever I say must hold some merit. My opinions are valid, I have worth and you should listen to me. (Score 5, flame)

Read this, and learn:
http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson080505.html

UN inception 1942

WWII 1937-45

Korean 1950-53

Chinese Civil War 1945-49

Vietnam War 1965-73

Iran-Iraq War 1980-88

French Indochina 1945-54

French Algerian 1954-62

Afghanistan War 1980-89

First Sudanese Civil War 1956-72

Biafran War 1967-70

That is of course a listing of wars (not battles or conflicts) since the UN's inception. Doing research on previous wars for every 60year period prior to the UN would take a long time. As a shortcut you can read http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson041305. html/

About this time 60 years ago, six weeks after the Normandy beach landings, Americans were dying in droves in France. We think of the 76-day Normandy campaign of summer and autumn 1944 as an astounding American success -- and indeed it was, as Anglo-American forces cleared much of France of its Nazi occupiers in less than three months. But the outcome was not at all preordained, and more often was the stuff of great tragedy. Blunders were daily occurrences -- resulting in 2,500 Allied casualties a day. In any average three-day period, more were killed, wounded, or missing than there have been in over a year in Iraq...

The army soon learned that their light Sherman tanks were no match for Nazi Panthers and Tigers. Hundreds of their "Ronson-lighters" -- crews and all -- went up in smoke. Indeed, 60 percent of all lost Shermans were torched by single shots from enemy Panzers. In contrast, only one in three of the Americans' salvos even penetrated German armor...

http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson071604.htm

http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp ?ref=/hanson/hanson200407160827.asp