by Garry Reed
Michael Moore, the professional freedom-hating socialism-hugging documentary filmmaker strolled onto the Jay Leno show to push his latest misnomered movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story." Not only did he show up but he showed off his utter ignorance of economics in general and capitalism in particular. And he, like many people on the political right and virtually everyone on the left, labeled capitalism as evil even as he clearly demonstrated that the evil belongs to government.
Capitalists are creators. Governments are takers. It really is that simple. Beyond that, the one thing Moore and virtually everyone else save a few laissez-faire conservatives and economic-savvy libertarians just don't comprehend is that capitalism does not exist in America, and has not existed for many decades, if in fact it ever did.
What we have is the incestuous copulation of corporate money and government power that long ago produced what was once called a "mixed economy" and has now become the mutant known as Statist Corporatism.
Real capitalism frees while corporatist statism enslaves.
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