OMG! NOT CAPITALISTS! 

There was a feature story in yesterday's Naples Daily News which details just how upset liberals and so-called "progressives" are over the economic team being assembled by new Florida governor Rick Scott.  Why upset?  Because Scott is putting together a team of people who believe in free enterprise, that's why.  Scott's team even includes Arthur Laffer, sometimes called the father of supply-side economics.  There's even someone from the libertarian Cato Institute on board.  Susan MacManus, a political scientist from the University of South Florida called Scott's team a "hall of fame of conservative economists." 

That's both a welcome and a gutsy move by Florida's governor-elect at a time when our nation is being ruled by a president with decidedly anti-capitalist leanings.  Remember, The Community Organizer has referred to the private - the free enterprise -- sector of our economy as the "enemy." 

Enter, stage left, we have Steve Hemping, the chairman of the Democrat Party in Collier County, Florida.  He says the people of Florida should be concerned.  Very concerned.  "The free market," Hemping says, "is not fair market."  Uh oh.  There's the "F" word again.  Whenever liberals start talking about fair this and fair that you just know they're fixing to stick their income seizure and redistributionist paws into your pocket.  The want to see what you have that you don't "need" so that it can be given to someone more supportive of Democrat candidates when elections roll around. 

There has never been any economic system in the history of civilized man that has done more to bring more people out of poverty than has capitalism and free markets.  Just what is a free market?  Pretty simple, actually.  You, as an individual, are free to develop a product or a skill that you think people might like.  You then put that product or skill out there into the marketplace to see if other people will freely trade something of value which they own - usually money - for your great idea.  If so, you make some money.  (Pay no attention to our favorite magazine major who thinks you ought to sell whatever you've developed for just what it cost you to produce it.)  If not .. you either improve on your product, come up with something better, or go to work helping someone else their great new idea that has actually achieved commercial success. 

Herein, I suppose, is the rub for people like our Mr. Hemping.  It's just not fair.  It's not fair that that guy over there is making money from his idea, while someone else is not.  It's not fair that he's making money, and I'm not.  He's no better than I am, and he deserves nothing more out of live than I do.  Whaaa Whaaa Whaaa."

Liberals hate free markets and free enterprise because it is a merit-based competitive system.   In case you haven't figured this out yet, liberals hate competition.  When people compete some come out on top, some don't.  Some people earn more, some don't.  Some people get more stuff ... other's don't; and as any good liberal will tell you: "Everybody ought to have an equal amount of stuff." 

Know this ... there are people out there who hate the idea of free enterprise and capitalism because they just can't cope.  They want it all handed to them.  They live, therefore they deserve ... and to keep from them that which they deserve simply is not fair.  These people have their political heroes .. and their political heroes usually have a "D" after their names.

By the way .. you're asking me what's fair?  You want to know if I actually have a definition?  Well, yes!  I do!  The definition of "fair" or "fairness" is pretty much the same as the definition of "justice;" and "justice" is when someone gets what they deserve.  Simple as that.