Why is America the world’s richest nation? Is it mostly because of the government, or is it thanks to entrepreneurs and businessmen? Historian Burt Folsom of Hillsdale College explains.
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Natural resources.
No, cause we got most of the money. Wada ya thinking? Or, cause lots of Americans work their asses off and don’t quit. Our Constitution allows us to dream big. And we do.
One word that I’d toss out there without having watched the vid: FREEDOM.
When people are allowed to dream and work their asses off to achieve those dreams, they go for it.
The Constitution.
“…it is what we create for others, with our widely varying capabilities, that is the real wealth of nations.”
— Adam Smith from his Wealth of Nations
The video was good and showed what our problems have been lately.
A government that doesn’t fetter us? Oh, well
until you get shit communists like the obamanite.
@Bad_Brad: Just pulling your chain to see if anybody would bite on it.
Hey, that’s the reason they gave us in grade school, don’cha know…?
🙂
“From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.”
-Thomas Edison
All the more reason to repeal OBAMACARE and DO NOT REPLACE!!!!
Media/Liberals are all ready calling the replacement TRUMPCARE. This will ruin his great start!
Just get out of the healthcare business! let private companies fight for our business end of story. Why Replace it was working before Obamacare!!!
In other countries, everyone’s always scrambling for “their slice of the pie”.
Over here, we make our own damned pie.