amicus
Literotica Guru
- Joined
- Sep 28, 2003
- Posts
- 14,812
A current series on the History Channel, “Things that changed America” or something like that, did an episode concerning Andrew Carnegie. As I watched the program and realized this is another left wing liberal progressive attempt to revise history, I thought it time to go on the attack.
It is amazing what a simple ‘factual’ biography can do to clarify what one thinks about history.
I included Sam Walton, the founder of the largest retail business in the world, ‘Walmart’, as another example of the continuing left wing, socialist attack on American business and the free enterprise system in general.
The link between the two is organized labor, Labor Unions, outgrowths of the ancient ‘Guild System’ in Europe that attempted to control production to create scarcity and thus keep labor costs high. The free enterprise system functions in opposition to the labor or guild system by exercising the right of free choice in both labor and management and looking to the consumer to determine success or failure.
It is a small thing I do here, for a small audience, but, as I know the world, it turns on the vision and dreams of one man, one mind, perhaps it can be reached here, who knows?
http://www.stfrancis.edu/ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/walton1.htm
Sam Walton (1918-1992)
“…Sam Walton was born on March 29, 1918 to Thomas Gibson and Nancy Lee Walton near Kingfisher, Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, they owned and lived on a farm until 1923. The Walton's then decided that the farm was not profitable enough to raise a family on. So, Sam and Jame's (Sam's younger brother born in 1921) dad decided he would go back to being a Farm Loan Appraiser. Once this job started the Walton family moved out of Oklahoma and moved from town to town in Missouri. This would traumatize most children but for the Walton boys though it was no big deal. This could be seen when Sam was in 8th grade at Shelbina he became the youngest boy in the state's history to become an Eagle Scout and this was only a start of his many of accomplishments….
“…Wal-Mart first opened in 1962 and became the world's number one retailer. Wal-Mart's success has also given many people today an opportunity for a bigger job market. More than 600,000 Americans work at Wal-Mart. The reason for its popular success it still follows Sam Walton's values: by hometown identity, each person is welcomed personally by People Greeters, each store honors a graduating high school senior with a college scholarship, bake sales to benefit a local charity, associates determine where charitable funds are donated, and the prices are low and customers do not have to wait for a sale to see savings. This is only to name a few of the things that Wal-Mart does for the community. Wal-Mart goes according to what Sam Walton believed, "Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community" ( The Wal-Mart Story). With this saying always in mind the Wal-Mart community outreach programs are steered by local associates who grew up in the area and understand its needs…”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande01.html
Andrew Carnegie
“One of the captains of industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age. Later in his life, Carnegie sold his steel business and systematically gave his collected fortune away to cultural, educational and scientific institutions for "the improvement of mankind."
”Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, the medieval capitol of Scotland, in 1835. The town was a center of the linen industry, and Andrew's father was a weaver, a profession the young Carnegie was expected to follow. But the industrial revolution that would later make Carnegie the richest man in the world, destroyed the weavers' craft. When the steam-powered looms came to Dunfermline in 1847 hundreds of hand loom weavers became expendable. Andrew's mother went to work to support the family, opening a small grocery shop and mending shoes.
“…Andrew's mother, fearing for the survival of her family, pushed the family to leave the poverty of Scotland for the possibilities in America. She borrowed 20 pounds she needed to pay the fare for the Atlantic passage and in 1848 the Carnegies joined two of Margaret's sisters in Pittsburgh, then a sooty city that was the iron-manufacturing center of the country.
William Carnegie secured work in a cotton factory and his son Andrew took work in the same building as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a week. Later, Carnegie worked as a messenger boy in the city's telegraph office. He did each job to the best of his ability and seized every opportunity to take on new responsibilities. For example, he memorized Pittsburgh's street lay-out as well as the important names and addresses of those he delivered to….”
“…Carnegie was unusual among the industrial captains of his day because he preached for the rights of laborers to unionize and to protect their jobs. However, Carnegie's actions did not always match his rhetoric. Carnegie's steel workers were often pushed to long hours and low wages. In the Homestead Strike of 1892, Carnegie threw his support behind plant manager Henry Frick, who locked out workers and hired Pinkerton thugs to intimidate strikers. Many were killed in the conflict, and it was an episode that would forever hurt Carnegie's reputation and haunt the man.
Still, Carnegie's steel juggernaut was unstoppable, and by 1900 Carnegie Steel produced more of the metal than all of Great Britain. That was also the year that financier J. P. Morgan mounted a major challenge to Carnegie's steel empire. While Carnegie believed he could beat Morgan in a battle lasting five, 10 or 15 years, the fight did not appeal to the 64-year old man eager to spend more time with his wife Louise, whom he had married in 1886, and their daughter, Margaret….”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
There was a time in American History, during the Industrial Revolution, where men of vision and courage forged a new world, a modern world, to replace the sickness that had and has destroyed Europe. Those men were giants in Industry, in Steel, in Oil, in Railroads and later in Electricity and Automobiles, and even later in Space and Technology, such as the much maligned Bill Gates and Microsoft Corporation.
The left wing liberal progressive socialists continue to this day to demean and denigrate the history of progess and industry through innovation and vision.
Perhaps the next time you hear a left wing broadcaster or read a left wing newspaper about how terrible America and Capitalism are, you might consider the source.
Amicus…
It is amazing what a simple ‘factual’ biography can do to clarify what one thinks about history.
I included Sam Walton, the founder of the largest retail business in the world, ‘Walmart’, as another example of the continuing left wing, socialist attack on American business and the free enterprise system in general.
The link between the two is organized labor, Labor Unions, outgrowths of the ancient ‘Guild System’ in Europe that attempted to control production to create scarcity and thus keep labor costs high. The free enterprise system functions in opposition to the labor or guild system by exercising the right of free choice in both labor and management and looking to the consumer to determine success or failure.
It is a small thing I do here, for a small audience, but, as I know the world, it turns on the vision and dreams of one man, one mind, perhaps it can be reached here, who knows?
http://www.stfrancis.edu/ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/walton1.htm
Sam Walton (1918-1992)
“…Sam Walton was born on March 29, 1918 to Thomas Gibson and Nancy Lee Walton near Kingfisher, Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, they owned and lived on a farm until 1923. The Walton's then decided that the farm was not profitable enough to raise a family on. So, Sam and Jame's (Sam's younger brother born in 1921) dad decided he would go back to being a Farm Loan Appraiser. Once this job started the Walton family moved out of Oklahoma and moved from town to town in Missouri. This would traumatize most children but for the Walton boys though it was no big deal. This could be seen when Sam was in 8th grade at Shelbina he became the youngest boy in the state's history to become an Eagle Scout and this was only a start of his many of accomplishments….
“…Wal-Mart first opened in 1962 and became the world's number one retailer. Wal-Mart's success has also given many people today an opportunity for a bigger job market. More than 600,000 Americans work at Wal-Mart. The reason for its popular success it still follows Sam Walton's values: by hometown identity, each person is welcomed personally by People Greeters, each store honors a graduating high school senior with a college scholarship, bake sales to benefit a local charity, associates determine where charitable funds are donated, and the prices are low and customers do not have to wait for a sale to see savings. This is only to name a few of the things that Wal-Mart does for the community. Wal-Mart goes according to what Sam Walton believed, "Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community" ( The Wal-Mart Story). With this saying always in mind the Wal-Mart community outreach programs are steered by local associates who grew up in the area and understand its needs…”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande01.html
Andrew Carnegie
“One of the captains of industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age. Later in his life, Carnegie sold his steel business and systematically gave his collected fortune away to cultural, educational and scientific institutions for "the improvement of mankind."
”Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, the medieval capitol of Scotland, in 1835. The town was a center of the linen industry, and Andrew's father was a weaver, a profession the young Carnegie was expected to follow. But the industrial revolution that would later make Carnegie the richest man in the world, destroyed the weavers' craft. When the steam-powered looms came to Dunfermline in 1847 hundreds of hand loom weavers became expendable. Andrew's mother went to work to support the family, opening a small grocery shop and mending shoes.
“…Andrew's mother, fearing for the survival of her family, pushed the family to leave the poverty of Scotland for the possibilities in America. She borrowed 20 pounds she needed to pay the fare for the Atlantic passage and in 1848 the Carnegies joined two of Margaret's sisters in Pittsburgh, then a sooty city that was the iron-manufacturing center of the country.
William Carnegie secured work in a cotton factory and his son Andrew took work in the same building as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a week. Later, Carnegie worked as a messenger boy in the city's telegraph office. He did each job to the best of his ability and seized every opportunity to take on new responsibilities. For example, he memorized Pittsburgh's street lay-out as well as the important names and addresses of those he delivered to….”
“…Carnegie was unusual among the industrial captains of his day because he preached for the rights of laborers to unionize and to protect their jobs. However, Carnegie's actions did not always match his rhetoric. Carnegie's steel workers were often pushed to long hours and low wages. In the Homestead Strike of 1892, Carnegie threw his support behind plant manager Henry Frick, who locked out workers and hired Pinkerton thugs to intimidate strikers. Many were killed in the conflict, and it was an episode that would forever hurt Carnegie's reputation and haunt the man.
Still, Carnegie's steel juggernaut was unstoppable, and by 1900 Carnegie Steel produced more of the metal than all of Great Britain. That was also the year that financier J. P. Morgan mounted a major challenge to Carnegie's steel empire. While Carnegie believed he could beat Morgan in a battle lasting five, 10 or 15 years, the fight did not appeal to the 64-year old man eager to spend more time with his wife Louise, whom he had married in 1886, and their daughter, Margaret….”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
There was a time in American History, during the Industrial Revolution, where men of vision and courage forged a new world, a modern world, to replace the sickness that had and has destroyed Europe. Those men were giants in Industry, in Steel, in Oil, in Railroads and later in Electricity and Automobiles, and even later in Space and Technology, such as the much maligned Bill Gates and Microsoft Corporation.
The left wing liberal progressive socialists continue to this day to demean and denigrate the history of progess and industry through innovation and vision.
Perhaps the next time you hear a left wing broadcaster or read a left wing newspaper about how terrible America and Capitalism are, you might consider the source.
Amicus…
I think it very fine and shall in fact attempt to amuse my friends with it. 
