carl marx, he and his partner when he was out fox hunting said during its rule of scarce 100 years, it's created more productive forces than all of the proceeding generations together. that's certainly true. they had that right. not how the results would be distributed. they had that wrong. the poor live better than most of the middle classes and far better those in the economies of africa and the middle east. despite the vast natural resources of those regions. russia, india, china, the challengers of american prosperity and might have a long path to travel produced by capitalist economies and prove the limits to growth like russia and china or bureaucrat heavy economies, like india, can duplicate the performance of the american economy while maximizing the scope of freedom. i don't think there's a bit of evidence that the economies can accomplish what dynamic capital ism has accomplished in america. what do i think the role of government is? let me try five suggestions to you. i've arranged them in the order of mounting the fences to conservatives. so that the first one will be easy an