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Put On The Pressure, Folks!

America became the great nation it is because explorers and businessmen and investors were allowed to make a profit from their own labor. After all, the profit motive is one of the strongest incentives known to man. This country’s capitalist background has allowed it to become the strongest, most industrious nation in history. People around the world recognize that and many are fighting for a way to leave their countries and enter ours.

At the same time, unchecked capitalism has a way of becoming militant, fascist and a great purveyor of poverty, dismay and destitution. So over the past two centuries we’ve enacted laws to keep the system fair. The profit motive, theoretically, was to be balanced against the Constitution’s guarantee of personal rights.