Susuto

1) Yes, of course I support Capitalism. As would anyone with more than 2/4 a functioning brain. Where is the growth in a society whose participants ACTIVELY promote and seek zero sum transactions? In the hands of the Government?!?!?! They can only TAKE a portion of the transaction rendering it (ironically enough) out of “balance”, they then consume 30-50% satiating their own existence, this leaves 50-70% (Less if one could fully account for the fraud, waste, and abuse) to be redistributed in the pursuit of said growth THEY would deem worthy!!! HELLO???? If you go down the road of Gamming those transactions by artificially boosting the aggregation of the percentages TAKEN by government (in an effort to “rebalance” the transaction) and ADD that to the zero sum solution, aren’t you in fact just changing the labels around so as to disguise the fact that you’re handing what would otherwise be called a PROFIT, over to the Government to be disposed of as previously described?!?!?!? HELLO???? That sounds like Feudalism to me!

2) Capitalism has NOT failed the United States, it CAN’T fail the United States because it is a derivative OF… the United States, and we call the ascendant of that derivative, Liberty! The Socialist et al. (AKA Collectivist) that continually constrain, malign, distort, undermine, pervert, and attack Capitalism are those who failing the United States (AKA Humanity, BTW) because Liberty and the United States which is it’s protector and chief advocate, are a threat to the collectivist and always have been. With any luck and all the effort we can manage, it will always be so.

3) You quoted a statement which starts “A Free Capitalist….” and ends with something I think was made up to represent what I’ve said or what you believe I meant, I know not which. I said… “A free capitalist can now take his/her corporation to any place in the world were the economy is less inflated and the laws are favorable to the manufacturing of goods and services.”…. which is completely true. I disagree with the implication that somehow the “protection” of the US is being violated by observing the Human Rights of other human beings (Americans in this case) to pursue their interests and their own betterment. IF WE “PROTECT” (as you put it) the United States by asserting dominion (IE control) over it’s Citizens to pursue happiness (IE achievements in business, technological advancements via business, and the accumulation of wealth for their families to use), have we not in fact DESTROYED the ideal that IS the United States?

The government, your fellow Citizens, and any other institution that would tell you “Sorry, magamiako the XXXX has determined your activities are not protective of the U.S., cease and desists or else” Would you consider that indicative of America and what we are trying to protect? I, for one, don’t think so.

4) You say, “the money that this person is earning is going more into the economy where the work is being done”; that may be true as well, however… I would assert that this is the crux of protectionist policy, and it’s central failing and consequently does NOT necessarily harm the United States. The protectionist is viewing a 3D world through a 2D lens. The argument is more basic and starts much closer to the point of the activity. You’re implying that you have some claim and some interest in the other fellas wages and more specifically WHERE he disposes of them, and that if the other fella is earning and/or spending in a manner (or on an activity) that doesn’t benefit you (or your country), it should not be allowed. You’re trying to “protect” yourself (or one’s country) by controlling everyone else’s expenditures. I would assert that the Corp (or… entrepreneur, or an individual for that matter) has a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT (a corporation is a collection of people, not a monster from Mars or Venus, they are people too…) to pursue happiness, to earn a profit, to make new products, to make the Corporation achieve it’s goals, including the profit for it’s shareholder (IE owners). I would also point out that the United States is not necessarily served (or protected) by spending the money or colleting the taxes inside the US, IN THE SAME WAY THAT…. Lowering the taxes on (for example) Capital Gains, LOWERS the amount of revenue collected. You almost ALWAYS increase collected revenue when lowering the Capital Gains tax BECAUSE more investors do more trading and literally generate more taxable transactions. If you have a 2D liner view of the world you tend to think, lower taxes=less revenue. In 3D world, lower taxes= more disposable income, more purchases, more demand for product, more purchasing of products, more vacations, more, more, more, etc, etc, etc… until the aggregate of THOSE transactions far outweigh the fewer transactions taxed at a higher rate. Similarly, KEEPING the jobs in the US doesn’t necessarily keep the money in the US or protect the US from the truly threatening elements bearing down upon the world.

In closing I would offer this counter example of “Protecting the United States”, a goal I am 150% dedicated to not only here on the pages of Digg, but also in various other forms of services rendered elsewhere, presently and in my past.

I would submit that in economies throughout the world where the scale and depth of economic activities are no where close to the truly massive scope and scale of the US economy, that the manufacture of Tennis Shoes and T-Shirts (IE physical stuff that is uncomplicated to build) CAN NOT be competed with to beneficial effect. A corporation (as I have painstakingly advanced) is at liberty to go where it will to manufacture its products as it sees fit. I would assert that by observing that Corporation’s liberties, and giving them their rightfully due, we in fact protect the ideals and the full value of the United States. I further submit by virtue of the fact that we can’t compete with those economies (due to the reasons previously stated), that we should instead use this opportunity to “GROW” those economies (even though foreign) to their maximum potential. By growing them larger, and lifting their “boats” from the muck, we will eventually produce a vast middle class (hopefully similar to our own) out of the third world that will, in turn, spend it’s disposable income on yet more products of which we, in the form of our corporations, will supply. This will ultimately bring BACK to the US, the wealth you may be thinking is lost.

They will not want to fight with us, they won’t want to loose what progress they have obtained. Likewise, they will be closer to the Western world via interaction with our economy. In other words, buyers, not fighters, and friends in commerce not enemies in wars and cold wars.

WE WILL NOT STARVE!!!!! Our citizens are capable of sooooo much more. Why stitch T-Shirts for a relative pittance when their education and commitment to our work ethic can be melded to the production of the High Technology of the 21st Century???? Why grasp for a dime that you once held and can no longer reach, when you have a 10 spot tapped to the end of your nose??? We are longing for the day when we punched out Fords and Chevys and a billion other THINGs on an assembly line, that NOW can also be produced by anyone. We have a near lock on a vast new century worth of Goods, Services, and Products that most of them can’t build or do, why thorw that away while pining for days long gone.

We have space ships to build, what third world country can do that? We have medical processes and equipment that is WAITING to be designed and constructed, who will do that? There is DNA modeling SW to be written. There is an automated fleet of robotic trash tucks, and fleets of robotic pizza delivery bots, and vehicles that will fly you to work and back, and millions of computing advancement to be perfected…. WE WILL NOT STARVE!!!!

I SAY… We rekindle the American Spirit! We ought naught look to the past and lament the loss of a few miserable jobs on an assembly line… WE SHOULD LOOK EVER FORWARD… AND BAY LIKE HUNGRY WOLVES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND PERFECTION OF THE NEXT INDUSTRY(IES)!!!!!!! We should be the one who do that because it is so natural to Americans anyway!

Let the third world advance and pull themselves out of the ditch using the jobs that are easy and that we have already perfected. Let them do the things they are able to do and allow the Corporations to help them by providing them with jobs they can do for less so that our Corporations will be able to compete with China’s economy. Let us win the third World to our side, not drive them away into the arms of others because some silly college student is too naïve to figure out they are being used to win the world for the collectivist based on transparent hyperbole. Let the world be won by the Sons and Daughters of LIBERTY and we will not need to fight the collectivist forever, nor will we loose ourselves in that fight.

Let the US and the Western world build THIS century and fear not one moment more as long as we are free to create, free to transact, and free to think and act in pursuit of OUR happiness!