Posted: 1/26/2014 Updated: 9/13/2014
Trigger
Just read articles about a recent Oxfam International study “Rigged rules mean economic growth increasingly “winner takes all” for rich elites all over world” dated 1/20/2014.
The subject of an alleged inequality or better demagoguery of inequality is rehashed on a daily basis by so sophisticated people or our so called intellectual elite.
Here is a recommendable article about this subject “Selling Envy/How governments promote the worst in us to redistribute wealth”.
The Bible And Civil Society
The Ten Commandments demand that you do not covet thy neighbor’s wife nor property. The ancient and universal Golden Rule rules.
I would argue that these two principles alone, i.e. thou shalt not covet and the Golden Rule, are the most fundamental principles of any civil society. You may want to add strict non violence.
John Stuart Mill in On Liberty about envy: “that most anti-social and odious of all passions, envy”.
Civil Societies rise and fall or perish if these two principles are abandoned.
The Great Recession And Its Scapegoats
With the Great Recession our elected politicians have been very busy trying to find and blame scapegoats, but not themselves, for massive government failure.
Insufficient economic growth breeds resentment against those who are still successful.
Big government (high taxes, over regulation, too many entitlements) has and still continues to smother economic growth, which would provide more opportunities for more people to improve their lives.
U.S. President Obama Is A Dangerous Populist
Or is he a demagogue?
U.S. President Barack Obama appears to be poised to exploit the ideology of inequality as his main talking point in the mid-term elections of 2014. As if there is something odorous about people who made money during or before the Great Recession.
U.S. President Obama is one of the worst offenders. The community organizers is economically illiterate and he is an enemy of business.
He is the latest incarnation of a U.S. President who is far removed from his predecessor U.S. President Calvin Coolidge perhaps one of the last U.S. presidents who understood that the business of free and responsible individuals in a free America is business not big government.
For any U.S. President to engage in such petty populism is a disgrace to the world.
Conclusion
More economic growth, free trade and free markets, more competition, and foremost less government!
More self-made millionaires!
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