This is what this "Man", Baba, would have to grapple with in his presidency.
As Robert A. Heinlein said,
"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances
which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are
the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned,
and almost always opposed by all right thinking people. Whenever this tiny
minority is kept from creating or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a
society, the people then slip back into abject poverty."
In a modern open-market capitalist
society, entrepreneurs get rich and the poor get better off as a result -- OF
COURSE they're not going to get as rich as fast (duh). So, of course
the gap thereby gets wider -- but the top AND BOTTOM of the gap both rise to
levels much higher than before. The gap is widening?? Well, hooray for
everyone’s sake! ESPECIALLY the poor!
If the rich weren’t free to
"get ever richer," developing or investing in ever-increasing
productivity, the poor would NEVER have any chance to improve their conditions at
all, let alone to obtain their ever-increasing access to the latest
tools of that expanding productivity, making every hour of their labor
ever-more valuable. And YOU wouldn't EVER have the chance to read this or
anything else brought to you by advanced technology.
Freedom incents the creators to empower YOU and as many other people in the world as possible. There's little an entrepreneur likes better than a bunch of ever-richer loyal customers. Remember, the wealth you see around you didn’t always exist; it was and is CREATED wherever the right CONDITIONS OF FREEDOM (including the rule of natural law evenly applied, with the rigorous protection of individual rights including property rights and respect for contracts, effective prosecution of the perpetrators of force and fraud, and the ease of engaging in trade without the interference or "permissions" of politicians and bureaucrats) are established and guaranteed.
Freedom incents the creators to empower YOU and as many other people in the world as possible. There's little an entrepreneur likes better than a bunch of ever-richer loyal customers. Remember, the wealth you see around you didn’t always exist; it was and is CREATED wherever the right CONDITIONS OF FREEDOM (including the rule of natural law evenly applied, with the rigorous protection of individual rights including property rights and respect for contracts, effective prosecution of the perpetrators of force and fraud, and the ease of engaging in trade without the interference or "permissions" of politicians and bureaucrats) are established and guaranteed.
Now
recognize the true nature and scope of evil and wherein it really lies. And
don't be too limp a wimp to call for viciousness even if all your friends and
neighbors fawn like groupies over any mantle of global "compassion"
in which the evil appears to be cloaked.
The freedom Keys