America's New Culture War: Free Enterprise vs. Government Control

This is the best explanation of the state of our economy I have read to date.

America's new culture war: Free enterprise vs. government control

By Arthur C. Brooks
The Washington Post
Sunday, May 23, 2010

America faces a new culture war.

This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, gays or abortion. Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country's future. In one, America will continue to be an exceptional nation organized around the principles of free enterprise -- limited government, a reliance on entrepreneurship and rewards determined by market forces. In the other, America will move toward European-style statism grounded in expanding bureaucracies, a managed economy and large-scale income redistribution. These visions are not reconcilable. We must choose.

PLEASE click on the title and read the rest. It is worth it.

Note - statism did not start with our current administration. As much as I respect George W. Bush, he is a statist as well, and statism will ruin the prosperity we have enjoyed in our country.

---Katie