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To: Road Walker who wrote (7870)	4/16/2010 4:07:40 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

There is a balance, or there should be between government and business. Neither pure capitalism nor pure socialism work well. The real question is where each can benefit our country best. However our system is no longer efficient. Unfortunately when societies cannot change they suffer. I've seen no change in the system except a worsening for 50+ years, basically since Eisenhower warned us about the influence of the military industrial complex, which we ignored to our own decline. Capitalism does not work if smaller more efficient companies are blocked by larger companies: 1) Larger companies use full or virtual monopoly power to block competition. This should not be allowed. 2) Larger companies use bribes/lobbyists to gain unfair government subsidies. The voters are responsible for allowing this. Unless we deal with these problems we are toast. A society that wastes money on clearly futile pursuits will suffer: 1) Drug wars are the same as prohibition. They enrich criminals, bribery and corruption, encourage a vast bureaucracy, and punish mostly people who are insane. And clearly they don't work. 2) We spend way to much on the military, basically to subsidize the free flow of oil. Basically I see no rationality in either ruling party. They are so entrenched, along with the bribe/lobbyist culture that nothing will change as long as they rule.