Comments on: The Prairies and the Pampas http://www.frumforum.com/the-prairies-and-the-pampas Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cheves222 http://www.frumforum.com/the-prairies-and-the-pampas/comment-page-1#comment-78853 cheves222 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:27:14 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=19149#comment-78853 Right on all counts. Of course, the bit about the left is true. On the right, we tend to gloss over higher concentrations of economic power too quickly. I'd rather have JP Morgan ruling the US economy than Uncle Sam, but I'd prefer neither. Markets stabilize because they equalize. When too much (as opposed to "a lot," of course) gets centered in a few people's hands, what the hell good is it to even have a market anyhow. Still, America is not South American. The percentage of wealth concentrated into the hands of a few in places like Argentina would make even Rush Limbaugh choke on his Dominican cigar. America is uncomfortably top-heavy, but it ain't the same. In the end, the left still needs to learn that economies function on kept promises as much as "people working." Let's hope Barack, et al, learn this quickly. Right on all counts. Of course, the bit about the left is true. On the right, we tend to gloss over higher concentrations of economic power too quickly. I’d rather have JP Morgan ruling the US economy than Uncle Sam, but I’d prefer neither. Markets stabilize because they equalize. When too much (as opposed to “a lot,” of course) gets centered in a few people’s hands, what the hell good is it to even have a market anyhow.

Still, America is not South American. The percentage of wealth concentrated into the hands of a few in places like Argentina would make even Rush Limbaugh choke on his Dominican cigar. America is uncomfortably top-heavy, but it ain’t the same.

In the end, the left still needs to learn that economies function on kept promises as much as “people working.” Let’s hope Barack, et al, learn this quickly.

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