The United States has the greatest economy in the world. It is based on free enterprise (including businesses large and small); free markets (which means you can spend your money how and where you wish); and freedom of choice (which means you can work where you wish, and invest as you choose). The top management guru of the 20th century said: The purpose of a business is to create and serve a paying customer. That said it all. The purpose of a business is to create and serve a paying customer. It is not the purpose of a business to make a profit, but if a business does not, it will die. It is not he purpose of a business to create jobs, although a growing business will do that. A free-market business provides the product or service and takes the risk, and we-the-people decide whether or not to spend our hard-earned money there. That is the structure under which the United States has become the greatest economy on earth. So when and why did we decide American business should be an unpaid servant for the U.S. government? It strikes me this is the core issue in the battle taking place in Washington right now. Shall we continue as a free-enterprise democracy, or shall we be transformed into a socialist state? So what do these admirers of socialism think? The first rule of socialism says no individual should receive more money than any other. Second, private business is not to be trusted, and must be controlled by government. Third, government planning is preferable to free decisions by each individual. President Obama openly said he wants to "fundamentally transform" America. But he never said from what
