FRANK: I’ve had people come to us and complain, “Well, if you do that, I can’t make any money.” The answer is that’s not my job. We’re not here to help you make money. We are here to help have a system in which you will make money as an incident of your providing funds to those who will use it productively.
That’s a little tough to digest because Bawney Fwank speaks in bleeble-blabble 95% of the time, but essentially the gist of it is that he is telling businesses to shut up with their complaints about the government taxing them to death and levying insane restrictions on them.
What he suggests, of course, is that businesses only exist to give their tax money to Washington, where people will “use it productively.”
This is absurd. The government exists to defend the country, regulate trade and regulate currency. That’s what the Constitution says. It says nothing about them being the most productive organization, nor does it say that they should be picking winners and losers (as they did with the auto and bank bailouts). Obviously they are well beyond the Constitution in a lot of places these days.
Businesses should be given an open field with fences on the outside to reign in only grossly inappropriate issues (for example, I don’t think workers should be allowed to be beat with clubs on the job). Instead of a fenced in field, the governments wants to give businesses a cattle chute. They’re trying to stuff businesses in a narrow path and force them along a pre-determined route instead of letting them flourish. They’ve obviously forgotten who pays their bills and who is responsible for America being as powerful as it is, and it ain’t the Federal government.
This is an amazing insight into the Far Left mindset. We’ve known this is their idea of the proper place for private enterprise for years, but it’s gut-wrenching to hear them blatantly admit it, knowing that a) no one is ever going to hear about it and b) the country is STILL under the spell of the Obamessiah and most of the zombies will just believe him if he says things like he’s “not a socialist” or that he “doesn’t want to redistribute wealth.”
Ok, to be fair, he’s never actually said that last part…he said in 2001 he DOES want the Constitution TO redistribute wealth. But I digress.
The government is not fiscally responsible, obviously. If you are given the choice of having a private firm do something, or having the government do it, most people will choose the private firm. Rasmussen’s polls even show it.
For Fwank to just throw out there the fact that he believes businesses don’t exist to make a profit but instead exist to serve The State is sickening, it’s anti-capitalist and quite frankly something I’d expect to hear from a maniac communist standing in a park handing out leaflets and protesting The Man that won’t let him get ahead in life.
Instead, it’s a sitting member of the United States Congress.
