Ben Shapiro on capitalism
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The story of Detroit’s bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Wait, Wikipedia isn’t working? Why hasn’t someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America’s global enemies sense a failure of will.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren’t about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office – like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security – are inalienable rights. They are not.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It’s a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It’s the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Never before in our country’s history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged – and yet so empty.
Ben ShapiroBen Shapiro Look, I’m a conservative, I’m a very conservative guy, and – and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he’s the standard bearer for conservatism.
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Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BanksyBanksy I love the way capitalism finds a place – even for its enemies.
BanksyBanksy Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
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