Billionaire: Free Market Essential for Happiness [View all]
This explains a lot...
...from enemies domestic and foreign to policies at home and abroad:
Kochs put a happy face on free enterprise
Consider the Source: Free market system leads to well-being
By Chris Young
Center for Public Integrity, June 25, 2014
Editor’s note: This story is one in a continuing series on Washington, D.C.’s information industry. The series seeks to illuminate the sometimes-misleading methods used by special interest groups to gain support for their agendas from government and average Americans.
When Arthur C. Brooks stepped on stage in December, the influential conservative’s mission was simple, yet ambitious: “If I do my job,” Brooks began his speech, “in the next few minutes I’m going to give you the secret to happiness.”
Standing before large block letters that spelled “H-A-P-P-I-N-E-S-S,” the charismatic president of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, explained how genetics, major life events and choices all contribute to one’s well-being.
Brooks mentioned the importance of forging close relationships with family, promoted charitable giving and emphasized that “money doesn’t buy happiness.”
Nearing the end of his nearly 20-minute speech, Brooks said happiness also depends on … free markets?
“The earned-success system that brings you happiness is the system of free enterprise that lifts people out of poverty,” Brooks said. “Don’t work for the stateism, the collectivism that suppresses this,” he added. “Work for the free enterprise that makes this possible.”
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http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/06/25/14988/kochs-put-happy-face-free-enterprise
That all would be great if the game, playing field and referees weren't, ah, fixed in favor of the billionaire and War Inc.
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