Following
World War II England became very left-leaning in its politics, and
the Labor party began nationalizing various industries in order to
become more like the economic
and humanitarian failures
that Russia was, and still
is, suffering.
Then,
later, the tides turned as Margaret Thatcher became
Prime Minister and began privatizing some or
all of the industries the leftists
had nationalized, in order to make them more productive and to reduce
the wastefulness and political influence that
necessarily follows from government ownership and its negative
influence on citizen’s lives.
In
America, when Obama nationalized local police forces (Ferguson and
Baltimore are only two
examples that come to
mind) for his own political reasons, and as Obama nationalized
healthcare and took
control of General Motors while issuing
volumes of executive orders and signing
massive numbers of EPA
regulations negatively
impacting the lives and
wealth
of Americans, thinking people began to realize the danger of
socialism and big-government intrusion into their lives.
Now
that we have an adult in the White House with
President Trump, a person who
respects the limitations on government that the Constitution
enumerates, we can
appreciate that the
flip-flopping and the
doing and undoing of the
damage done by Socialists like
Obama as they take control
of industries and the lives of citizens, is very costly and
undermines any trust in government that
the citizens and investors may have. The British economy suffered
greatly as one party nationalized and the next party privatized, and
this economic disruption was
a great cost to the nation and the population living there. With
such
political and economic instability generated
at the highest levels
of the government
for any nation, investors
don’t know whether or not to invest, entrepreneurs are reluctant to
start up new businesses, and existing businesses don’t expand, due
to uncertainty.
One
can only hope that Americans have learned their lesson after
watching England suffer tough times following World War II as its
governments changed and made the economic adjustments to fit the
party in power, and
in this country, following
the Obama years of little to no economic growth as
the Democrats in government tried to control the business environment
and convince industry to do big-government’s will,
and one hopes that America
will not again elect a
leftist who will cause increased unemployment and economic woes.
