CREATING OPPORTUNITY IS NOT SOCIALISM

by Michael Douglas Carlin

Giving every man, woman and child access to opportunity is not socialism. It is the right thing to do. Providing each person with this opportunity will actually eliminate the drag on the system and promote long term peace and prosperity. In fact, this is allowing the true free market economy to function with checks and balances in place to ensure that all participants adhere to sound business principles. The sense of entitlement, wherever it exists, needs to be educated out of the American people. Nobody is owed influence, and nobody is anointed to influence. Anyone that has played a team sport in a competitive environment knows that each player must earn his or her position every single day. This keeps the team sharp and playing at the highest level.

By eliminating "special interest" influence from Washington, we restore the truly competitive engine of capitalism. No longer will we have one company with an artificial leg up on their competition. We will make it easier for the ingenuity of the individual entrepreneur to bring innovations to market. Too many big corporations fear an upstart business, because its low overhead exposes the fat within big business ranks. Through legislation, big business makes it hard for a lone business person to get started. This strategy is short-sighted, as we face competition from outside of America.

We are now in a global economy. We must restore and reinvent America's Engine of Competitiveness to be able to compete with all companies and countries that are embracing capitalism. Manufacturing can and will return to our shores if we can eliminate shipping costs, control environmental affects, and build innovative products that match the needs of America as well as the needs of other areas of the world.

The responsibility to take care of those who are less fortunate throughout the world is the responsibility of all humanity. Government takes the lead with foreign policy, military, civil affairs, and membership in the world's organizations. Faith-based organizations, non-governmental organizations, corporations, non-profit organizations and individuals must bridge the gap by ensuring three square meals a day, shelter, access to quality health care, personal safety, an education and a job to every man, woman and child alive. This giving must be done hand to hand, eye to eye, and heart to heart.

The education of every man, woman, and child alive must include a strong curriculum of personal responsibility as well as charity.

Moral responsibility rests with everyone who enjoys the benefits of capitalism.

This is A Prescription for Peace.

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