Either/Or

Take your pick from these options. A view that too many Americans benefit from an unjust status quo betting on the public’s cynicism or complacency. Life as a proletarian struggle kinda like in socialism. This view sees elected officials, suspicious of non-government types eager to centralize anything they can. That is, impose ever-expanding regimentation. An opposing view holds that decentralization means free enterprise. Business men that are profit-motivated but also patriotic, can improve life for an ever-expanding segment of American. By the end of World War II, America’s genius for manufacturing, its engineers, production managers and workers turned out 2/3 of the military equipment used by the Allies including 286,000 war planes, 86,000 tanks, 8,800 naval vessels, 2.6 million machine guns and 41 billion rounds of ammo. Tell that to current nay-sayers such as our President haranguing women at Barnard college about the bleakness of America’s past and their future struggle. Yes, we’re in a war between bloodless, fiscal tinkering and the free choices of entrepreneurship. Manufacturing might not forge America’s future ( Facebook mania anyone?) but I choose a brighter morning in America.