Many in the occupy Wall Street movement are too young to remember the cold war and what life was like behind the bamboo and iron curtains..Many are calling for the overthrow of the free market in favor of a planned socialist economy..They naively have fallen for the socialist Utopian myth that brought so much human misery to the twentieth century..Not only would a serious study of economics help enlighten them, but just a rudimentary knowledge of the history of socialism and free market economies..Our current problems pale in comparison to the poverty socialism created in places like the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe..
Socialism brought to the last century a brutality and politically caused poverty and starvation such as had never been known to the world before..Socialism produced the Bolsheviks, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, etc..Socialism where it was practiced in it's entirety brought one party totalitarianism. Along with the total loss of religious and economic freedom.. Countries who have gone the socialists route historically have created weak anemic economies unable to meet their populations basic needs. North Korea and Cuba have socialist economies...Unbelievably there are those in this country who know so little about economic history they would take us in the same direction..
There is nothing wrong with government trying to help the less fortunate among us..However historically the best way to produce the wealth to do so has been free and open markets..The mentality that if everyone can not succeed, no one should be allowed to succeed, is based upon envy not sound economics..Capitalism alone will not make our country free and prosperous. A moral common ground that in the past was supplied by Biblical Christianity is needed. Freedom can only be maintained by those who are morally capable of governing themselves..
Political, religious and economic liberty have historically produced free and prosperous nations..It is no accident those nations have had in the past a Biblical and Christian foundation..
Wesley Jones
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