by Joyce Bueter

Created on: February 28, 2010   Last Updated: March 01, 2010

I much prefer capitalism to socialism and here is why.   Capitalism relies on individuals and their own capabilities regardless of station in life.  Life under capitalism is an equal opportunity employer.  Where you wind up at the end of your life depends solely upon your own desires, talents and an innate desire to “make something of yourself” as people used to say.  Under Socialism we expect Government to make everyone equal.  So what if they have to take it from someone else and give it to us.  If we don’t wish to work hard for our daily bread, Uncle Sam will just take it from someone who has worked for it and give it to us.  What a deal!  This system does not make everyone equally wealthy but rather it makes everyone equally poor

You can be born with a silver spoon in your mouth and wind up with nothing if you choose to squander your birthright and have no ambition to do anything with your life.  On the flip side of the coin, you may be born to the poorest of families and wind up with that silver spoon because you have ambition, a willingness to learn and a lot of “stick-to-itiveness”.   

There will always be the” have-nots” who seem the envy the “haves”.  But the “have nots” don’t seem to realize what the others have had to go through to get where they are. They are not appreciative of hard work and long hours, imagination and the willingness to take chances.  If given the same set of circumstances one person might take the right road to success while the other chooses not to.  Referring to the above statement, it is a choice and at least we have one.  It is not someone else’s choice for my life.  I want to be the one in control of my life, make my own decisions; I don’t want the government doing it for me!

Capitalism depends totally upon individualism and has proved to be a resounding successin the United States in the short span of a couple hundred of years.  This is in stark contrast to socialism which has seen failure over and over and over, but despite this people still seem to have penchant for trying it again.  Is that not the definition of insanity?  Trying the same thing over and over in the same way and expecting different results?  Sure sounds like it to me.  I think our knowledge of history is extremely lacking these days.  We need only to go back to China and Russia to see how the common man actually lived in a collective society.  It wasn’t pretty and I don’t wish to see my children and grandchildren going down that road.

As it stands now, capitalism is losing ground as the Government continues to eat away at our freedoms and is attempting to insert itself into every aspect of our daily lives.  We must be ever vigilant to preserve the way of life we, here in America, have come to expect.

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