Sun. 12/05/13 18:00 EDT
.post #152
Having stressed the difference between “conservativism” and “the free market,” I’d reword the question, from
“What evidence is there that conservatives have done anything to stop anyone from being disadvantaged?”
to
“How would the Free Market help the disadvantaged?”
I would then suggest these answers:
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The free market would provide the disadvantaged with a solid defense against the theft, via inflation, of their savings. With a free market, the disadvantaged would finally be immune from the ravages of inflation. Not only that, but the disadvantaged would actually see the value of their savings continually increase. Only the free market can reverse the welfare state’s heartless and cruel theft of savings.
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The free market would provide the disadvantaged with myriad opportunities to finally extract themselves from what was previously, under the welfare state, permanent and hopeless poverty. With a free market, “disadvantaged” would only be temporary and transitional.
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The free market, by enormously raising everyone’s income, would be of greatest proportional advantage to the currently disadvantaged. It’s entirely likely that poverty as we currently define it would cease to exist and be relegated to the dustbin of the welfare state’s sordid history.
These answers are deliberately non-technical, the idea being to provoke further questions about what, at first blush, must seem to the “liberal” like absurdly unrealistic outcomes. If further explanation was requested, I’d definitely stress the absolute evil of a fiat monopoly monetary system and how it transfers wealth, on an unseen and continual basis, from those who can least afford to lose it to those wealthy elite who control the system. I would emphasize that no person who sincerely professes to care about the disadvantaged could, in good conscience, support our current monetary system. In other words, I would assert that only the free market can claim the moral high ground when it comes to helping society’s most disadvantaged persons. Don’t meekly apologize that we refuse to rob Peter to pay Paul; instead, proudly proclaim that when it comes to helping the poor, the free market is the only efficacious and compassionate choice.