Arthur C. Brooks had a column in yesterday's Washington Post (?!?).
Read it. Print it out. Email it to your friends. He nails it!
Money quotes:
"When it comes to support for free enterprise, we are essentially a 70(for)-30(against) nation.
"Free enterprise brings happiness; redistribution does not. The reason is that only free enterprise brings earned success."
"The 70 percent majority, meanwhile, believes that ingenuity and hard work should be rewarded."
"What matters most to Americans is the commitment to principle, not the exercise of power. The electorate did not repudiate free enterprise in 2008; it simply punished an unprincipled Republican Party."
Monday, May 24, 2010
America's new culture war: Free enterprise vs. government
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