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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (145985)	11/6/2008 2:54:00 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Part of supporting manufacturers is so that they survive and continue to produce. If manufacturers go out of business leaving only a handful growing their widget, prices go up as well. I'm asking where the evidence is that price supports for growers of green leafy produce is necessarily a bad thing. I don't know if it is since we don't have it and there doesn't seem to be any evidence one way or another. As I've said repeatedly, I'd like us to stop subsidizing the production of corn because I think it produces a raft of bad products. I don't think sweet corn on the cob is too much of a problem but all those highly processed foods and feeds are another thing entirely. OK, so go and barter in the wilderness and see how well you do in the winter when your grain stores have been eaten by voles. I am not advocating prohibition and I think drug use should be regulated but legalized for adults. We should be able to have prescription drugs come back over national boundaries because we are subsidizing the entire world's use of such drugs. Sometimes government does well and sometimes it does badly but we cannot live without it. I will be much more likely to trade my mutton for your grain if I knew that some neutral referee had sampled your grain and deemed it fresh and not full of vole poo. Such is the problem with CDOs and why the market ground almost to a halt without regulation. The role of government in the markets is not just to police them but to make them function which means to make them. I am calling for village-wide wealth creation which is good for everyone. Since we live in a bell curve world, that means that most of the wealth creation is in the middle class not skewed to the ultra wealthy. That is simply silly and should make those who believe in 'markets' unhappy. That is evidence of corruption which is what we have had for 30 years. The 'creators' of wealth are those who make things or service things that other people find valuable. Those who push around pieces of paper in secret markets don't create wealth, they accumulate wealth because the system works to reward that kind of behavior. Thus we have an economy built on air that has come crashing down on our heads.