Published on Oct 10, 2012 by Thomas Peterffy
Thomas Peterffy grew up in socialist Hungary. Despite the fact that he could not speak English when he immigrated to the United States in 1956, Thomas fulfilled the American dream. With hard work and dedication, he started a business that today employs thousands of people. In the 1970s, Thomas bought a seat on the American Stock Exchange. He played a key role in developing the electronic trading of securities and is the founder of Interactive Brokers, an online discount brokerage firm with offices all over the world.
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The USA is certainly not going to become a socialist country under President Obama or any other politician. The government will not control the means of production or any businesses. We do run a health care system for our military but that is not socialism. You may have grown up with the evils of a devastated post-WWII economy and you regret that your people did not have enough gumption to work to restore their country without being bribed. What you are missing is an experience living in a plutocracy. The rich get richer and more powerful, everyone else is left to sink into poverty. This country has had that experience from the Civil War to the 1930s. The right-wing forgets this hard lesson – at their own peril. You are not the person to speak to America about economic control systems. Your experience is not an American experience, the Hungarians are not Americans. You have no experience with equates to that of America. You need to study our history first and not just try to conflate your un-American experience with our republic.
Thank you, Mr.Thomas Peterffy, for your courage and determination. You are an inspiration to everyone who has motivation, determination, and the guts to stick their neck out and risk everything in order to reach their goal to succeed. Thank you for making the commercial addressing the FACT that the USA is on a slippery slope and is sliding into socialism. Your commercial inspired me because you, as a private citizen having experienced communism, understand socialism, and appreciate what we have in freedoms and protection under our republic, care enough to do something to defend our republic through having purchased commercial time in an attempt to educate the public. Thank you! Kuddos!
To all of you who are so afraid of socialism…points if you can actually define it. Finland and Sweden are two socialist countries who pay high taxes. They have an education system that far, far exceeds ours. They are rated the happiest countries on earth. Their economies are booming. They have entrepreneurial spirits greater than ours. I bet they even have some wealthy people. But unlike out PR pitch, they actually have upwardly mobile citizens. No one is left to starve or get ill on the streets without a hand up. Look into the REAL socialist countries, then come back here and wonder if an unrepentant plutocrat is really what he cracks himself up to be.