Ed Dedelow Quotes
-from his' book-
"Why Capitalism Works and Government Doesn't"

"Risk is an inherent trait of free enterprise."

"The only fairness is the right of individual choice."

"The only equality is the right to pursue happiness."

"Bigger government equals lower wages not poor rich."

"When society embraces risk, the future holds less doubt."

"The best job guarantee is a healthy, uninhibited economy."

"When the cost of government increases, wages will decline."

"Government expansion substitutes for consumer expansion."

"Government creates burdens for productive workers, not jobs."

"In the socialist sense, people are obligations and have no value."

"Our ability to produce is directly related to our standard of living"

"Good intention and fairness are the parents to failure and confusion."

"Government growth shifts purchasing power from one group to another."

"Wealth and compensation is the reward for improving someone else's life."

"Those who support single issues will ignore chaos to achieve their own goals."

"The desire for war is inversely proportional to a society's standard of living."

"Individualism faced government control and communism lost and capitalism won."

"The total production of a community is directly related to the number producing."

"Taxes act to redistribute consumption from the productive to the nonproductive."

"Socialists are seeking equality though taking, not through the pursuit of opportunity."

"Eliminating risk acts to contract the workforce. Risk acts to expand the workforce."

"Increases in consumption (living standards) are directly related to increases in wealth."

"An investment is made to benefit society and profit is made when society is benefited."

"Reduce the size of government, increase labor for production and living standards will increase."

"Government stimulus doesn't allow for the labor needed for the production it encourages."

"Risk is the freedom that affords humankind the right to think as it wishes and do as it thinks."

"Government growth is the reallocation of labor from free-market choices to government control."

"Free enterprise defines and develops solutions for an imperfect society by a natural evolution of thought."

"It is the job of government to find ways of releasing workers into the labor pool during good economies ….."

"Solutions are directly related to the number in a free and willing workforce who are available to solve problems."

"Socialism concentrates government, power and wealth. Free enterprise decentralizes government, power and wealth."

"Government taxation puts decisions into the hands of politicians who can only guess the apportionment of economic forces."

"No great city was ever built by the economic stimulus provided by welfare. Welfare communities beget more poverty, not jobs. Productivity advances resulting from innovation and efficiency are directly related to the population of the universe that practices free enterprise."

"Communism and socialism use punishment as incentives because rewards by definition cannot be divided equally and thus are unfair."

"When government grows, a shift in purchasing power places a greater burden on those who are not government beneficiaries."

"Business costs can be divided into flexible and inflexible costs: Free and productive labor is a flexible cost; Government mandated costs and taxes are inflexible."

"The major difference between the cost of fighting a war and the cost of being prepared for war is that being prepared is a cost to humanity, while fighting a war is a cost of humanity."

"In transferring free market decisions to government from individuals, government reallocates a limited labor force to non-market-driven causes and acts to reduce the accumulation of wealth by the masses."

"Profit is the result of satisfying needs and wants at a price that is affordable and agreeable; wealth is the value of that satisfaction and is created by those who satisfy or sustain needs and wants; money facilitates the exchange of goods and services; and labor is the device that fulfills demands."

"Politicians should see to the preservation of freedom, safe guarding of the country's assets, funding of good causes, establishment and maintenance of a strong reliable monetary system, encouragement of scientific research, assistance for the aged and indigent and most of all preservation of the system of free enterprise and then they should go home."