In Praise of Capitalism Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
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Vote for Obama or McCain?
A situation which many claim,
One on the left,
The other bereft,
They say, of elements of change.
Change–they yell, it’s the answer,
So the liberals do clamor.
But what’s so new,
With politics, it’s true,
Held to the New Deal with fervor?
We tried Lassiez-Faire, they say,
And it failed, so the Proles pay.
How can they lie?
What we had, we tried,
Not free, but “mixed” economy.
Where was the freedom to choose,
And the freedom to lose?
Which is so needed,
Unless we are impeded,
Forever, by Big Brother’s fool rules.
Socialism, they preach, is the cure?
A new idea, the Left is sure.
But this was tried,
And countless died,
Then, now, and could, in the future.
Capitalism, really, let’s try that,
Without government and it’s fat cats.
Wealth and liberty,
By rationality,
The moral solution, and that’s a fact.
