The entrepreneur in the garage wants absolutely nothing to do with the government, except that his liberty and property be defended and protected, say, with patent protection or with the “takings clause”.  And Joe or Jane with the garage start-up is the engine that propels the American economy. It’s innovation and invention.  It’s high-risk, some succeed wildly, some modestly; many more either languish or crash and burn.  It’s free-market capitalism.  Capital cannot work effectively unless it’s put at risk.

 Bill Gates was a garage start-up guy, and so was Sam Walton.  Each was brilliant.  Each took huge risks time and again.  Each was fiercely independent.  Each was an innovator and a sea-changer.  Each faced stiff competition.  Each sent someone – a scout – to Washington D.C. to keep an eye out for trouble.  Neither was a political contributor.  Neither wanted anything from the government; neither wanted to invest in it.

 Garage start-ups don’t make lots of enemies lists.  Wal-Mart, however, grew and grew.  It became possibly the world’s all-time-most-effective welfare program, both with its cheaper prices and its employment and outsourcing. When it bought property and sought to come into Smalltown USA, it now made enemies lists.  Lots of local stores just couldn’t compete with the now-big boy.

 Microsoft as well became the two-ton gorilla in the room, and other software companies just couldn’t compete with the now-big boy.  Bill Gates and his company now made lots of enemies lists.

 Liberal fascists have always loved big business.  Presidents Wilson and FDR liked it when a corporation started to achieve monopoly status.  Ditto Hitler.  Then, it was time for cooperation.  The government would keep all the Davids away from the Goliaths while the Goliaths would do what the government instructed.  In reality, when those garage start-ups became corporate giants, their leaders no longer thrived on risk.  They wanted security.  Later, JFK, LBJ and Jimmy Carter worked on co-opting corporate America to the common cause.  Want the Cliff’s Notes version?  Read Hillary Clinton’s It Takes a Village.

 If I go to a doctor, pull out a pistol and demand free medical care, most Americans will call the cops, have me arrested, and thrown in the clink.  If I go to my neighbor, pull out a pistol and demand money to pay for my medical care, ditto.  If I lobby the government to force my doctor and neighbor to pony up for my care, most Americans will think that just fine.

 A bunch of software companies went to their congressmen to complain about Bill Gates.  A bunch of mom-and-pops went to their congressmen to complain about Sam Walton. Bill Gates was hauled before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  The scene was ala Detroit’s auto titans recently. In the aftermath, Gates hired hoards of lawyers, lobbyists and consultants in D.C. to both protect and influence, aka “cooperate”.  In 2000 Wal-Mart ranked 771^st in direct contributions to politicians.  In 2004, Wal-Mart was #1.  “Cooperation”.  Who's more powerful, the world's richest men or the gubmint (ignoring the Constitution)?  You wanna see “cooperation”?  Check out the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Archer Daniels Midland Company.

Does the Obama Administration liberal-fascist oligarchy want to own General Motors?  No.  Does it want to run Chrysler and the auto industry?  No.  Does it want to run Wall Street?  No.  What the liberal fascists have always wanted to do is to have big government and big business striving toward the same “common good”.  President Obama will continue to define what that is, the czars will continue to monitor and communicate to businesses and industries where they are on-track and where off-track, and “encourage” corrections.  GE (General Electric, including its NBC), and now ABC are poster children, models, if you will, of the “new partnership”.

 Most Americans think that big business is right wing, conservative, Republican.  That’s because most Americans have been indoctrinated in government schools, programmed by liberal mass media – whether tv, NPR, Hollywood, popular music books, both fiction and non-fiction – and “educated” by leftist college professors.  Most Americans are wrong.  American big business is overwhelmingly liberal-fascist, wanting protection from stiff competition, the comfort of stability, the absence of innovation, the safety of big-government “cooperation”.  Try to imagine how many “multiculturism” and “diversity” and “affirmative action” and “harassment” and “sensitivity” seminars these corporate execs have had to suffer through during the last few decades, post-college.

 Companies like GE will promote “green” technologies, as are most of today’s “oil companies”.  It’s for the “common good”, so they should be appreciated and praised, we’re told.  The government will then give them subsidies and outright grants to help them.  Many, maybe most, of today’s state universities receive more than half of their total budgets from such federal government grants.  I wonder why research results almost always point to bigger government, government intrusion, and government solution.  I wonder why college faculty are leftist.

 The entrepreneur in the garage wants absolutely nothing to do with the government.  Today, the symbiotic relationship between big business and big government, jointly focused on “the common good”, both throw individual liberty and small business under the bus.  Government’s protection of those “too big to fail” from free-market capitalism and targeted regulation of smaller entities not too big to fail mean that capital can not be used effectively because it’s not put at risk.  Today, a young Bill Gates or Sam Walton or Henry Ford would be stepped on by government agencies like bugs . . . with Microsoft, Wal-Mart and Ford lawyers, lobbyists, consultants and executives acting as cheerleaders.

 When the Tea Party movement grows and gains momentum, my point is that no one should look to Lipton as a corporate sponsor.  It’s a subsidiary of Unileaver Global, totally committed to global sustainability in its products and operations, including “living wages” wordwide for “the common good”.  Furthermore, something called “BiG TeA PaRty” has already co-opted the name to fight AIDS, encourage composting, and other causes for “the common good”.

 What I expect to see in a couple years is that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, now closer and in a shorter tunnel, indeed the train, speeding us inexorably toward becoming 20^th-century Argentina, stopping in Venezuela to take on fuel.  Rather than huge and enthusiastic gatherings at Tea Parties, what I expect to hear is the sound of one hand clapping.

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