(April 13, 2011 at 8:46 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Government has a role. Businesses create the wealth, government regulation keeps them honest. Neither one is good or evil. There's a balance here.
Society's wealth is not just created by the top 1% but by a strong middle class as well. What makes the 3rd world distinct from more advanced countries is the lack of a middle class.
The economic libertarians want to put the fox and the hen house together WITH NO FENCE, claiming the hens will punish or reward the fox naturally with some spooky "unseen hand" (sounds like superstition. May as well rub a rabbits foot on a lottery card). Sure, then hens will punish the Fox, and that fox will die, and a better fox will be created that is more beneficial to the hens.
People who push economic libertarianism want to be the fox running rough-shod over the Hen house.
Democracy is about checks and balances. I want the government and business to check each other, not business run free while government says "If we put up a fence, it would be immoral...so what if the fox kills a few Hens and their children...its Freedom. If you dont like it, stop crying like a baby and have nothing to do with the Fox."
Yeah.."Dont blame the Fox, just have nothing to do with him.".. thats libertarian economics.
