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Now, if we could just keep the government on protecting our rights to life, liberty, and private property, we'd be much better off.
Yes, we can "pursue happiness" all we want, but nothing can guarantee we'll catch it. If govt safeguards the three above, that will be a big help. The rest is up to us.
Thanks to TRUMP for stopping socialism dead in its tracks, so we could continue to be the most FREE and PROSPEROUS nation in the world. Thanks Trump, McConnell, and the rest of our Republican overlords for protecting our way of life and the capitalism that we invented and no other country on earth has, truly making America special as the only place on earth where you can buy a turkey in a shop.
Thanks to TRUMP for stopping socialism dead in its tracks, so we could continue to be the most FREE and PROSPEROUS nation in the world. Thanks Trump, McConnell, and the rest of our Republican overlords for protecting our way of life and the capitalism that we invented and no other country on earth has, truly making America special as the only place on earth where you can buy a turkey in a shop.
He's given it a few pretty good whacks (mostly by putting law-abiding judges and justices on the courts for a change), but he has by no means "stopped it in its tracks". Much of the country has gotten hooked on govt control, govt largesse, and govt debt, and getting them off it will take many years. And that will be AFTER we get Harris/Biden out of office.
Agriculture is one of the heaviest regulated sectors in the economy. If we didn't have federal regulators, we could have all been eating E. coli laced lettuce this Thanksgaving.
I like capitalism, but I'm not naive.
Yes, because farmers won't eat what they produce. You're not naive, you're simply ignorant. As I can only assume that when you do your job you know nothing about it and will try to hurt others. All I can assume given your post.
In stark contrast to liberals' belief that government is needed to make the economy run well and "give" people what they want, that Thanksgiving turkey was available in the store when you went to buy it, through the efforts and planning of thousands of complete strangers. Yet they all made decisions and carried out acts solely to benefit themselves... and so made it possible for you to enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, without ever contacting you. And without being ordered to by some government overseer or czar.
An essay from 2003... and as timely today as it was then.
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Giving thanks for the 'invisible hand'
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
November 27, 2003
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...it probably won't occur to too many of us to give thanks for the fact that the local supermarket had plenty of turkey for sale this week. Even the devout aren't likely to thank God for airline schedules that made it possible for some of those loved ones to fly home for Thanksgiving. Or for the arrival of Master and Commander at the local movie theater in time for the holiday weekend. Or for that great cranberry-apple pie recipe in the food section of the newspaper.
Those things we take more or less for granted. It hardly takes a miracle to explain why grocery stores stock up on turkey before Thanksgiving, or why Hollywood releases big movies in time for big holidays. That's what they do. Where is God in that?
And yet, isn't there something wondrous — something almost inexplicable — in the way your Thanksgiving weekend is made possible by the skill and labor of vast numbers of total strangers?
To bring that turkey to the dining room table, for example, required the efforts of thousands of people — the poultry farmers who raised the birds, of course, but also the feed distributors who supplied their nourishment and the truckers who brought it to the farm, not to mention the architect who designed the hatchery, the workmen who built it, and the technicians who keep it running. The bird had to be slaughtered and defeathered and inspected and transported and unloaded and wrapped and priced and displayed. The people who accomplished those tasks were supported in turn by armies of other people accomplishing other tasks — from refining the gasoline that fueled the trucks to manufacturing the plastic in which the meat was packaged.
The activities of countless far-flung men and women over the course of many months had to be intricately choreographed and precisely timed, so that when you showed up to buy a fresh Thanksgiving turkey, there would be one — or more likely, a few dozen — waiting. The level of coordination that was required to pull it off is mind-boggling. But what is even more mind-boggling is this: No one coordinated it.
No turkey czar sat in a command post somewhere, consulting a master plan and issuing orders. No one rode herd on all those people, forcing them to cooperate for your benefit. And yet they did cooperate. When you arrived at the supermarket, your turkey was there. You didn't have to do anything but show up to buy it. If that isn't a miracle, what should we call it?
Out of the seeming chaos of millions of uncoordinated private transactions emerges the spontaneous order of the market. Free human beings freely interact, and the result is an array of goods and services more immense than the human mind can comprehend. No dictator, no bureaucracy, no supercomputer plans it in advance. Indeed, the more an economy is planned, the more it is plagued by shortages, dislocation, and failure.
The social order of freedom, like the wealth and the progress it makes possible, is an extraordinary gift from above. On this Thanksgiving Day and on every day, may we be grateful.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
Great post. And to all farmers, ranchers, and their employee's we thank you for your hard work. God bless and have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
I am thankful for Capitalism that can enable us to have an abundance of food and free us up to other endeavors.
I am thankful we have regulations that make sure we are not fed poison too.
If government does One thing,.it is to make sure we don't kill each other or steal each other's "stuff".
/looking at you China with your poison baby formula
Capitalism is, of course, nothing but the free market operating with no outside regulation or restriction, other than the usual legitimate government tasks of making sure people keep their words, don't steal, don't assault, don't coerce etc.
What is there to be thankful for with your wonderful capitalism theory? Farming is low wage work, many have to be publicly subsidized. What about those with food insecurities or live in a food desert where access to fresh food is limited and people have to resort to fast food and risk obesity and health problems. To combat these societal ills, supermarkets should be heavily regulated. New large supermarkets should require to be built in the inner cities. Supermarkets in suburbs should subsidize inner city food supply so that food insecurity goes away. We have a long way to go indeed.
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You're not naive, you're simply ignorant. As I can only assume that when you do your job you know nothing about it and will try to hurt others. All I can assume given your post.
