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To: Cogito who wrote (179020)	1/10/2012 11:34:29 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

According to the WSJ I think the bottom line was a net gain in jobs overall (for all of the Bain transactions), but that's what the creative destruction of capitalism is all about is it not? The role of government in our system seeks to soften the blows of the capitalist engine by the use of various safety nets (unemployment insurance etc.) I just don't get why we would fault a successful capitalist in a capitalist system for doing well what the system allows him to do. But are you saying that because he used the system's rules successfully he would then get rid of the safety nets if he was head of the government? That he would see them as a hindrance?