MainStreetRadical.com ^ | September 7, 2009 | James Devere

We hear a lot today about our struggling economy, even about the failure of capitalism; we are told that our economic system, not just our economy, is broken. However, the notion that our system, that the American system is broken must be rejected. Our economy and our banking system were mismanaged to the brink of disaster by a special interest beholden congress. But is our free enterprise system broken? No, not until politicians silence Middle America; not until the people return the same bad apples back to the congressional barrel. The economic brinkmanship embodied in massive spending bills threatens to push our economy over the edge. Not voting out the architects of our current economic trouble may allow the final nail to be driven into the coffin of our economic future.

Obama and his progressive Administration admittedly have a problem with the economy. Their issue, however, is not a struggle to devise a way to fix the economy; they are more concerned with the fairness of the economy — their public rhetoric is dripping with class envy and a loathing for America’s success. Rather than striving to promote a system that has allowed for the highest standard of living in history — even though some poor people in America still have just one cell phone and have to survive on basic cable — rather than tout that economy, our leaders apologize for our arrogance and our success. They are not concerned with a sputtering economy or one that is misfiring. They see our economic engine as an SUV, opulent and sucking energy, and are bent on its destruction.


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