Any attempt to lower the burdens & breadth of government on every American is met by the fatuous accusation that the GOP is out to enslave the middle class to a life of serving millionaires & billionaires who are sailing around the world on yachts clinking their platinum champagne glasses together and scheming ways to build a national monument to Gordon Gekko in the heart of Times Square.
You know the drill by now people.
Of course such rhetoric on the part of Obama and his party is meant simply to stoke the flames of class warfare in order to build a permanent dependency on Big Government.
But as Ryan notes that worldview is not America; our country was formed on the prospects of equal rights not equal results. We strive for upward mobility not horizontal egalitarianism.
Thats the European model. Thats the model our ancestors left to come create an opportunity society" Ryan told HUMAN EVENTS.
So hows the GOP doing in making the moral case for capitalism? They need more work he says.
We should not shy away from class warfare; we should take this head on."
Heres Part 2 of our interview with the 2011 href=>Conservative of the Year":
Jason Mattera is the editor-at-large of HUMAN EVENTS and the author of the New York Times bestseller Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation (Simon & Schuster). Previously he was the Spokesman for the Young Americas Foundation.