Sunday, April 19, 2009

Is fierce competition a bad thing?

It seems slightly more common lately to think of absolutely fierce competition to be something not in the best interest of everyone and is maybe frowned upon. We sit around and talk about greedy oil companies and fierce bottom lines of Wal Mart and others and disapprove of them. We’re talking about helping the poor, sharing the wealth, spreading it around, thinking more about unemployment benefits and higher taxes than making a buck. We’re borrowing money at a rate unseen in our history. We have more and more programs designed to help people that can’t make very much money. They’re behind on payments, but we’re going to help them out. When you really think about what’s going to get our country back to where it’s supposed to be, it’s probably not billions of dollars of borrowing and hand outs. It’s definitely not the billions of dollars of borrowing to fight a seemingly endless war on two fronts. We’re sending more and more troops to Afghanistan and why? We were never sold on this war like the Iraq war. We need to do things to promote competition. We’re doing things to hurt competition like having unbelievable union wages and allowing illegal aliens to come in and take jobs that citizens would actually take. Why do people think that competition would not allow for business to run as normal with no illegal aliens here? It’s called a labor market and it actually exists out there. People will work manual labor jobs if they’re paid the right price. If a particular industry can not function paying its workers a fair wage then it just shouldn’t exist. The market will take care of it. Just a thought.

1 comment:

Phillip said...

I was actually at a small get together the other day where the guests were trashing on Wal-Mart right after a gal said she was applying to be a manager at Target. Unknowingly, they were partaking in a positive environment that Wal-Mart has created which is the competition of free market. If they truly despise Wal-Mart as they say they do, we'll see more applications and dollars delivered to Target stores. This would cause Wal-Mart to rethink their strategy and cater to the demographic they lost trust in.

I agree with you man. To eliminate competition is to remove motivation.