Back in the bad old days of the the late 70s when socialist management of the economy was even worse than it is now, compounded by the fact that a number of marxist run trade unions were totally out of control, a conversation about bearings made me get mine!
When a local business owner was asked why he was not expanding his incredibly successful business which manufactured bearings, he made an interesting response.
He pointed out that he could sell every single product he made and export them all; he could double or treble the size of his business; he could employ many more people; he could aid the economy.
I suspect that this man was, by and large, contented as he was but he pointed out that there was simply nothing in it for him!
He was already working long hours, undergoing all the stresses of running a business and beginning to export on top would just add to the hassle in his life and taxation ensured that it could not be worth his while financially.
Socialists should be forced to read this and weep! - Or at least made to think!
Here is a man able to create a number of good jobs and who chooses not to do so because the left have wanted to tax him into the ground. These petty-minded people have won as they have maliciously ensured that he will not be permitted to earn good money. How delighted they must have been BUT - what of all those jobs that never existed? What was the cost?
One useful definition of socialism: 'A group of people who delight in holding back the whole of society so they may act spitefully against those of whom they disapprove!'
