"Under capitalism, the standard of living of all was improving: prices falling, incomes rising, health and sanitation improving, lengthening of life spans, diets becoming more varied, the new jobs created in industry paid more than most could make in agriculture, housing improved, and middle class industrialists and business owners displaced nobility and gentry as heroes." http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2007_05_Imprimis.pdf
The Right sees it as a positive....the Left, a horror that must be expelled, extinguished, regulated out of existence.
No matter that it is the mechanism that lifts masses out of poverty and slavery.
1. "The Roaring Twenties was the period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in New York, Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and many other major cities during the 1920s in the United States, Canada and Europe."
Roaring Twenties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. ".... the unparalleled prosperity of the 1920s. The nation's economy reached astounding production, consumption, and stock market records, rendering the severe postwar recession a bad memory,..." "Age of Prosperity," America in the 1920s, Primary Sources for Teachers, America in Class, National Humanities Center
2. President Calvin Coolidge, Republican, commented on same:
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these the moving impulses of our life.”
It’s hard to dispute the notion that most Americans are concerned about the economy and personal prosperity. And, Coolidge made it clear that he didn't simply mean “greed is good.”
“Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,”he said. “But we are compelled to recognize it as a means to well-nigh every desirable achievement. So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it....” This Day in Quotes: “The business of America is business” – a famously unfair misquote…
But...for Leftists.....Liberals/Progressives/Democrats/Socialists/Fascists.....profit is poison.
3. " Every Leftist is, essentially, a Marxist…even though most eschew the title since the fall of the Soviet Union. Even so, Left-wing ideas are predicated on Marx’s materialist view. Philosophically, the term implies that only material things are real.
The Left’s concept of materialism broadens into the overarching desire to see every individual materially equal. The Left is less interested in creating wealth than in distributing it, and has been far more interested in fighting material inequality than tyranny, which is why Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc., tend to have the support of Leftists around the world.
End social and economic inequality and one will have Utopia! Sadly, attempts toward creation of utopia in this world lead to dystopia. Which leads to this comparison: conservatives marvel at how good America is, Leftists want to ‘transform’ it.
Prager, ”Still The Best Hope”
As proven by the current administration.......the Leftist view of business is a recipe for failure.
The Right sees it as a positive....the Left, a horror that must be expelled, extinguished, regulated out of existence.
No matter that it is the mechanism that lifts masses out of poverty and slavery.
1. "The Roaring Twenties was the period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in New York, Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and many other major cities during the 1920s in the United States, Canada and Europe."
Roaring Twenties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. ".... the unparalleled prosperity of the 1920s. The nation's economy reached astounding production, consumption, and stock market records, rendering the severe postwar recession a bad memory,..." "Age of Prosperity," America in the 1920s, Primary Sources for Teachers, America in Class, National Humanities Center
2. President Calvin Coolidge, Republican, commented on same:
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these the moving impulses of our life.”
It’s hard to dispute the notion that most Americans are concerned about the economy and personal prosperity. And, Coolidge made it clear that he didn't simply mean “greed is good.”
“Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,”he said. “But we are compelled to recognize it as a means to well-nigh every desirable achievement. So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it....” This Day in Quotes: “The business of America is business” – a famously unfair misquote…
But...for Leftists.....Liberals/Progressives/Democrats/Socialists/Fascists.....profit is poison.
3. " Every Leftist is, essentially, a Marxist…even though most eschew the title since the fall of the Soviet Union. Even so, Left-wing ideas are predicated on Marx’s materialist view. Philosophically, the term implies that only material things are real.
The Left’s concept of materialism broadens into the overarching desire to see every individual materially equal. The Left is less interested in creating wealth than in distributing it, and has been far more interested in fighting material inequality than tyranny, which is why Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc., tend to have the support of Leftists around the world.
End social and economic inequality and one will have Utopia! Sadly, attempts toward creation of utopia in this world lead to dystopia. Which leads to this comparison: conservatives marvel at how good America is, Leftists want to ‘transform’ it.
Prager, ”Still The Best Hope”
As proven by the current administration.......the Leftist view of business is a recipe for failure.
