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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (33867)	6/21/2011 3:13:27 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

you have absolute proof that big government enables corruption within the government itself and to favored businesses as well. And you are worried about the people who believe in liberty and are against institutionalized corruption. Talk about naive. libertarians do not assume that companies will behave in the public interest. Quite the opposite. We believe that the free market will resolve issues of corruption and abuse more effectively than corrupt government employees who are the ones enabling the "bad" companies. Libertarians accept that there is no such thing as 'perfect' and that the same things that drive corruption and abuse in the private sector also exist in the public sector. Institutionalizing that corruption makes it worse. so, you can continue to believe your fictions about the naivete of libertarians or you can look at the overwhelming evidence that big government enables corruption in business and which not only perpetuates it, but increases it.