Captialism made us great

[redcliffsw]

Michael Moore's latest propaganda
- Dr. Walter Williams

Michael Moore's new film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," will be released next month. I've neither seen nor read reviews of the film, except for a short piece in the London Telegraph (Sept. 6) titled "Michael Moore film calls capitalism evil." Aware of Michael Moore's previous films, I know that it will be at best a misleading story about capitalism. So let's do some defensive mental preparation, not about the film but what is and what is not capitalism.

Capitalism is an economic system characterized by private ownership and control over the means of production. The distribution of goods and services and their prices are mainly determined by competition in a free market. Under such a system, the primary job of government is to protect private property, enforce contracts and ensure rule of law.

There has never been a pure free-market capitalistic system, just as there has never been a pure communist or socialist system, where there is government ownership of the means of production and each individual has equal access to society's resources. However, we can rank economies as to whether they are closer to capitalism or closer to communism or socialism. If one ranked countries according to whether they were closer to the capitalistic end of the spectrum or the socialistic or communistic end, then ranked countries according to per-capita GDP, and finally rank countries according to Freedom House's
"Map of Freedom in the World," he would find a pattern that is by no means a coincidence. The people in those countries closer to the capitalist end of the economic spectrum have far greater income and enjoy greater human-rights protections than those toward the socialist and communist end.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=110646

[Diane Amberg]

He should have waited until he either read other reviews or watched the movie before he wrote that. Most of the article was unrelated to the title.

[redcliffsw]

It's better that he did not wait.

[Anmar]

It's better that he did not wait.

Huh?  talking about a movie that he hasn't even seen yet is better than actually being informed?  No wonder the conservative movement is such a mess.  Remember Moore's movie about guns? 

Did you know the theme of that movie was that guns don't kill peope, people kill people.  I bet none of you watched it long enough to get to that part.