theVOID Wrote:If the market was truly free there would have been no gamblers with safety nets, no quick profits, no cheap and easy money, no deposit free housing, no housing bubble, no stupid risk taking, no sub prime loans and no stimulus package to keep good on the governments promise.Oh please. This libertarian dream land you speak of is just as dangerous as its opposite.
Just replace government dictator with "CEO" and you get the same damn thing.
theVOID Wrote:And lets not forget that the US public sector debt is currently at some 14 trillion dollars, about 300 billion away from the debt ceiling - To repay the debt they're 'quantitative easing' (printing money) to increase the money supply which decreases the purchasing power of the savings savings of every American (and everyone who owns US currency) who worked hard for their income and saved it.To be fair, that's because Americans elect people who promise free money. Republicans cut taxes and spend. Democrats do whatever hte republicans tell them to because they're too damn spineless to do have their own ideas. When they do, they're just inefficient.
theVOID Wrote:Before you go any further you might want to consider where America is right now and where they're heading - Step by step they get closer and closer to losing the social and economic liberties that made them so prosperous in the first place and heading for the same center-left sociocapitalism as practiced by the Europeans.China is a socialist nation with total government control over their economy.
theVOID Wrote:And I wouldn't be so anti-government if they weren't so completely inefficient at spending. Just transferring funds between government departments costs money, it's like transferring a handful of sand from one pocket to the other, you end up dropping a significant amount of it on the way.Government would be 10x better if it weren't so damn corrupt - thanks to those with money and power buying politicians who are elected on fantastic fantasy voodoo economics where republicans think cutting taxes and deregulations mean more freedom and more money and democrats are too spineless to have their own ideas.
I just keep amusing myself seeing how some of you will argue for low/minimum/no government and expect to have a freer and more prosperous nation on the inane notion that government and government alone causes evil and stupidity and totalitarianism.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan