Capitalism, A Forgotten Value
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism I have to chuckle when I listen to the business community and or the governemnt. specially when either talks about capitalism. Capitalism is something our founders understood. For a brief, maybe one hundred years or so following them so did most Americans. They understood what it is as well as the value it gave to a free society. However, after 1900 or thereabouts something changed. I think we all know what it was that began to slowing erode capitalism until today we have only a shell of real capitalism. And a perverted shell at that. Yes, certainly I blame the anti capitalist governemnt mentality that took hold and ultimately grew in America, much to its great detriment. I also blame equally the businessmen and the manufactures that once were responsible for this nation's prosperity and the creation of national wealth {those who produce}because they became willing partners in the efforts ...