Why Michael Moore is wrong about capitalism

[Timothy W.]

http://business.nd.edu/ask_more/commentary.aspx?id=4649

I found this very interesting article written by two Notre Dame university business professors. It is short and succinct but very interesting considering Notre Dame was so heavily embroiled in the controversy of President Obama speaking to last year's graduating class (though for other reasons than his marxist outlook).

This line just shot out right at me. "But, if a person is not responsible for his own well-being, how can we expect him to take responsibility for the well-being of others?"

I have yet to meet a socialist who wasn't either funded by a capitalist or used capitalist activities to build the wealth to afford their socialist outlook.

[Scott Hubbard]

"The US is ranked as one of the lowest in education among the industrial nations, not all of which are considered "capitalist" the way US is."

Liberal BS! This is completely in accurate from many standpoints the first being the US education system ranks very high when compared to countries who provide well-rounded or multi-disciplined educational systems.

We also provide many for-profit educational opportunities giving many people chances to re-educate, retrain, or reinvent themselves.

Lastly, in many third-world and other developing countries, little education is offered and often ar not accounted for in statistics. For instance, in India, china, Pakistan, many south american countries, there will be a maximum of one child born to a family that will be allowed to even seek an education.

Lastly, I have a friend who is a doctor who holds an administrative position with the local college of medicine. And a statistic which is hardly ever discussed is nearly 30% of the student are foreign born. A high percentage of them are from northern european countries.

In talking with many of them, they do not want to return to their countries and often times marry in order to stay here.
In fact, one nurse, whom got pregnant actually returned to finland to have her baby and then returned here and eventually married the father.

The reason is because the government will not only pay for the birth expense but would also pay her for six months to sit on her ***.

If our education system is so lowly, then why are our colleges booming with foreign students?

Reality is, many people in socialist countries dream to be able to have the freedoms we take for granted here.

Many Americans and wannabe socialists idealize these countries when in fact, many citizens in these countries would gladly trade places with them.

I say some of us should set-up a socialist / capitalist foregin exchange website inviting Americans who want government run healtcare, 60% income tax, 17% interest rates, can trade places with budding capitalists in non-capilistic countries.

Government run healthcare is ridiculous... They can't even run the VA medical system, what makes liberals think they can run a health system 100 times larger?