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Obama’s Waterloo

“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” So said President Obama July 13 in a speech at Roanoke, Virginia. And with those words, he cast aspersions on all of America’s business owners, denigrating their hard work, intelligence, leadership and vision, implying whatever they accomplished, got served to them on a silver spoon. Obama’s administration has been openly hostile to businesses from the get-go, imposing vast reams of regulations that have contributed to the country’s economic malaise and abysmal job-creation record. But by so nakedly expressing the anti-capitalist ideology behind his policies, Obama has met his Waterloo.

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Make Mine Freedom

Joseph Barbera and William Hanna (Tom & Jerry, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons) co-directed this 1948 cartoon for MGM, extolling the virtues of freedom within the larger framework of America’s capitalistic society. No doubt it’s considered an old-fashioned piece of propaganda by moonbats, but interesting how prescient it has proven in exposing the threats posed by con men selling utopian panaceas and snake oil medicines. Just remember: “Everything is fine, everything is fine, everything is fine.” H/T Evil Blogger Lady

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O’Rourke Weighs In

Why the free market is a bathroom scale. Thoughts of satirist P.J. O’Rourke from his book DON’T VOTE! IT JUST ENCOURAGES THE BASTARDS.

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