Anti-American letter?

From Paul Kane, White Lake Township:

To Denise Black of Milford, in regards to your Mail Bag contribution from Aug. 24 (“Myth of free markets”): Your bad-mouthing of profit and free market capitalism is so frighteningly anti-American that I am certain that you are pulling my leg.

Profit is the only thing that produces real jobs that employ people so they can buy food, and it pays the taxes that allows governments to do what they do. With no profit, then there’s no money; then no economy, then no jobs; then no food, then no human survival.

The only alternative to free market capitalism is government control. As an honest, hard working individual, I will not perform if I am controlled or “owned” by government. In order for me to spread my wings and be the best that I can be, I require free market capitalism and its promise of profit. Otherwise, I would invariably morph into a zombie.

In regards to your list of negatives, those issues exist because of immorality and corruption which can both be found in business and government, and is quite a different topic.

If you believe that everyone in business is immoral and corrupt, then I suggest that you are surrounding yourself with the wrong type of people. I don’t and won’t associate, nor do business, with those types. I believe that most people strive to not be immoral or corrupt, but maybe that’s because of my Irish Catholic upbringing. Maybe this is the topic that you might better consider, or does your apparent adoration of government control also make it impossible for you to believe in God?

As with every liberal argument, they take little pieces from multiple topics, jumble them together, and then make believe that they make sense.