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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: koan who wrote (984159)11/27/2016 4:09:53 PM
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Do you think people were living better in the middle ages?

People live better today SOLELY as a result of free market capitalism. No other reason. Not government bureaucrats. Not taking money away for taxes.

But because there are huge corporations that can take huge risks to manufacture massively expensive drug treatments and imaging equipment. Great cars that have doubled in reliability and longevity solely because of competition. The working poor today have air condition, cable TV, multiple cars in the family, until 2010 the best health care in the world, cheap products that make lives better, and 10 year old kids with cellphones with high-speed Internet.

So, people are living better today than ever -- but it is in spite of government and only where economic freedom exists. And the proof-positive, empirical example is China -- which is still transitioning to free markets.

Yes, it is better today. But make no mistake about WHY. It is exactly what you and other extreme leftists oppose.
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