With a presidency that is socialist-leaning and big-government-oriented, it seems we are backsliding into a kind of pre-Reagan era where business is viewed as a necessary evil, the best and brightest should work for the Feds or community organizations, and we shouldn't even try to compete with our ultra-capitalistic competitors in East Asia and elsewhere.
Let me guess where you heard that -- Rush Limbaugh? John McCain? Get a grip on yourself, man; if Obama was "socialist-leaning," how the hell did he get support from Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Google, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and other capitalist corporations? How did he get endorsements from such well-known millionaire capitalists as Warren Buffett, Hilary Rosen, Craig Newmark, David Geffen, etc.? How about Ben Bernanke? Or Brink Lindsey of CATO?? Do you really believe any of these people would endorse a "socialist"??
For a vast majority of the laundry list you pointed out, you completely missed the point. People in positions of power WANT a socialist in power. One that will do their bidding. Create rules to make REAL monopolies. Nothing is like being bought out by the govt. Then you can by definition not fail, unless the govt goes belly up.
Aside from many of those people being Liberal-leaning in general, which is no crime, they also have a vested interest in no one being able to start a rival company. If I was Google, I would sure as hell want to get on the govt's good side, the one that will enforce new rules, and grease the wheels of this brave new world.
If you have never heard of this concept before, you obviously haven't read anyone vaguely conservative outside of Rush. Try reading any free-market thinker, possibly a dead one like Milton Friedman.
I mean damn, this is Small Govt Rhetoric 101, you must have been dozing during class.
*disclaimer* I'm not saying Republicans(in power like senate etc) are free-marketers. They aren't. On the other hand, they are not as socialist. I'm damning with faint praise here.
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With a presidency that is socialist-leaning and big-government-oriented, it seems we are backsliding into a kind of pre-Reagan era where business is viewed as a necessary evil, the best and brightest should work for the Feds or community organizations, and we shouldn't even try to compete with our ultra-capitalistic competitors in East Asia and elsewhere.
Let me guess where you heard that -- Rush Limbaugh? John McCain? Get a grip on yourself, man; if Obama was "socialist-leaning," how the hell did he get support from Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Google, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and other capitalist corporations? How did he get endorsements from such well-known millionaire capitalists as Warren Buffett, Hilary Rosen, Craig Newmark, David Geffen, etc.? How about Ben Bernanke? Or Brink Lindsey of CATO?? Do you really believe any of these people would endorse a "socialist"??
For a vast majority of the laundry list you pointed out, you completely missed the point. People in positions of power WANT a socialist in power. One that will do their bidding. Create rules to make REAL monopolies. Nothing is like being bought out by the govt. Then you can by definition not fail, unless the govt goes belly up.
Aside from many of those people being Liberal-leaning in general, which is no crime, they also have a vested interest in no one being able to start a rival company. If I was Google, I would sure as hell want to get on the govt's good side, the one that will enforce new rules, and grease the wheels of this brave new world.
If you have never heard of this concept before, you obviously haven't read anyone vaguely conservative outside of Rush. Try reading any free-market thinker, possibly a dead one like Milton Friedman.
I mean damn, this is Small Govt Rhetoric 101, you must have been dozing during class.
*disclaimer* I'm not saying Republicans(in power like senate etc) are free-marketers. They aren't. On the other hand, they are not as socialist. I'm damning with faint praise here.