Re: The Truth about Earned Success

I seriously doubt that either party campaign will have an ounce of decent information in it. 

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:

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Friends,

 

You can expect much campaign talk in the weeks and months ahead about fairness and equality.  There will also be lots of finger-pointing at business and finance firms as the cause of our economic woes.  In short, what you'll hear is an effort to make the moral case for European-style social democracy in America.

 

So how are Europeans faring under their social democratic system?  Take my wife's native country of Spain.  Unemployment there is at 24.4 percent, with youth joblessness more than double that.  Nearly half of adults under 35 now live with their parents.  The collective happiness of Spaniards--already relatively low--has withered.

 

Faced with these realities, statists in America know they can't make the economic case for social democracy.  That's why they make the moral case instead.  How do they do it?  By arguing that the moral core of free enterprise is greed.

 

At AEI, we are showing what free enterprise is really about--earned success. 

 

Earned success is what our founders meant when they promised the "pursuit of happiness."  It's the ability to create value in your life or in the lives of others.  To do this, you must be able to define what success means to you and then pursue it with all your might.

 

My AEI colleagues are discussing a wide range of issues related to free enterprise and earned success.  Kevin Hassett has been addressing the human disaster of unemployment, Leon Kass the need to find meaning in America, and James Pethokoukis the growing attacks on the private sector.  (You can find more of our work here.)

 

Earned success is a major theme in my new book, The Road to Freedom.  It's also a subject I've been talking about in dozens of media outlets recently, such as Fox & Friends, Stossel, and CNBC's Squawk Box, as well as in the most recent AEI Banter podcast. 

 

I'll be discussing The Road to Freedom at a livestreamed event at AEI tonight.  If you have questions about the book or AEI's broader work on free enterprise, email them to roadtofreedom@aei.org or tweet them during the event with #roadtofreedom.  I'll answer the best ones live.

 

The fight for free enterprise is on.  Thank you for standing with us.

 

 
Arthur

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