How the left attacks free enterprise and market economies.

This is what passes for intelligent argument on the Left today. Anything can be twisted and exploited for the purposes of empowering the government and to attack the free enterprise of the market economy. They still believe if enough power and enough capital are placed in the hands of the right people, they could better direct our productive energies better than the gazillions of naturally configurating voluntary efforts of earnestly competing yet productively cooperating creative energies that occur spontaneously in the marketplace.

There's a strong impulse to simply retort by asking when was the last time someone got a job from a poor person, but this argument is so easily destroyed simply by using the Left's own arguments against themselves. The Left loves to argue that rich people are greedy exploiters of the working man. All they care about is making a profit, we're told. So it would then logically follow that if the economy was so target rich for rich people to make profits they, being the greedy exploiters they are, would be investing their record-breaking profits and taking shots at those targets in hopes of making even more.

The problem of course is that during periods of economic uncertainty, not only do businesses streamline to maximise profits in their current ventures, available investment capital remains on the sidelines because enterprisers don't have a reasonable degree of certainty that their investments will yield a profit. They are able but not willing to invest. Only when conditions improve to the point that investors are both willing and able because they have reasonable expectations for profitability will new ventures be capitalised. It is at that point that not only does capital come off the sidelines and get into the game, but also labor is hired and put into play.

To approach this from yet another angle, consider what happens when a particular market sector is showing spectacular profitability. A 'hot' market will attract the 'greedy' capitalists to it like moths to a flame. -Especially when they are rich in available venture capital. Profitable market sectors are target rich and therefore naturally attract additional competition to them. With more competition in a sector there is an increase in supply which benefits the worker because there are more people producing the goods or services in this hot sector, and there is a subsequent lowering of prices which benefits the consumer.

This is how free enterprise in competitive market economy configurate to direct scarce resources to their most productive and profitable activities. If capital and labor are sitting on the sidelines, there simply are not enough lucrative opportunities for enterprisers to invest and make ventures. They save rather than invest. The additional aggregate savings make it easier for cash-strapped enterprisers to borrow money (in other words, the rich then stake horse the middle class entrepreneurs), but when even they aren't willing to risk borrowed capital on additional enterprise, you know your economy is being throttled by the very government that the Left foolishly believes is the solution to the problem. Their cure is the disease.