The other night, I heard a Columbia University professor bashing capitalists as greedy pigs the nation would be wise to banish from our shores.

Does he know they created the endowment that pay his salary? Does he care? Should we confuse him with the facts?

Last week, I read a New York Times story quoting a politician ranting about “the corporatists” in her party. That is code for “capitalists.”

Does she know these very capitalists employ the vast majority of Americans. That they produce the taxes that wind up in the pork she proudly displays in her district? Does she care? Should we invite her back down to earth?

Our US economy is divided into two major components: private and public. The former generates wealth; the latter squanders it on every half-assed boondoggle the human mind can possibly fathom.

The private sector is led by smart people with a dream and the guts to turn their dreams into reality. Whether their ventures are large or small, they employ people, provide fertile fields for minds to grow, invent things, drive progress, create funding for hospitals and universities and provide the tax dollars to fuel the greatest military in the world. The same military that protects those who think that the only thing worse than a business person is a soldier.

The public sector is led by whiners, frauds, takers, complainers whose primary mission in life is to point fingers at the “Corporatists” who fund their institutions, line their pockets and enrich their lifestyle.

The public sector is The Last Refuge for Losers.

Of course, there are exceptions–magnificent ones–but for the most part these entitled gnats run around pretending to save the world while looking down on it from the private jets the capitalists “buy” for them with stolen money euphemistically known as “taxes.”

The private sector has to work hard, work smart, dream, fail, pick itself up again, start over, stay at it relentlessly to achieve success against all odds.

The public sector simply raises the tax rate. Wow, that’s easy. Why don’t we all go into that business?

Well, thankfully, America was built on a cultural DNA that creates Ford’s and Googles and Smith’s General Stores. People who relish their independence, their freedom to create something, who want to give far more than they want to take, who expect nothing but the opportunity to take a chance.

Amazingly, this threatens the parasites who live off of us. In an act of blindness that has no equal, they want to bring every dollar into the public sector, the ”do nothing” sector, the handout sector, the entitlement sector. Then we can all sit around and sing Kumbaya while shaking 100’s from the money trees.

The Last Refuge for Losers wants your business.

The Last Refuge for Losers is a dangerous place.

Mark Stevens

CEO

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