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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (7037)	1/18/2012 3:33:37 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

I tried, perhaps poorly, to raise a couple substantive issues. You respond with non sequiturs. Comprehending the Austrian arguments would allow understanding why corporations seek and get their power from politicians rather than consumers. Do you actually believe corporate farms, investment bankers, or the pharmaceutical giants want you and I to be too poor to buy their products? This labeling of Americans.. Stupid remains stupid. Ignorant remains ignorant.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (7037)	1/18/2012 5:41:57 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

Paraphrasing a genuine liberal, a philosopher concerned with the human condition: The conclusions of economics are largely counter intuitive. Without guidance the intelligent layman will often reach conclusions inimical to the causes they purport to serve. Boobs who wouldn't have the temerity to offer advice to a nuclear scientist or neurosurgeon are quick to babble about this one critical area of study where they are utterly unqualified. And they vote. SONOFABITCH!!!

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (7037)	1/21/2012 3:22:41 PM
From: TimF	4 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

Today, China, is a far better example of capitalism than America is. No it isn't. Things might be moving towards that being true. We are slowly becoming less capitalist, while China is becoming more, but for now there is still a lot more state enterprise and political interference with the market in China than in the US. Maybe in China you can get around the interference more with bribes or connections, but only up to a point. They represent a favored few who have climbed in bed with politicians - from both sides. All the more reason for the government to have less control over the market. You think (with some justification, even if things might not yet be quite as bad as you present it) that the big business use government to tilt the playing field to their advantage. Then why would you want government setting the rules? Government doesn't (for the most part) act as a balance against powerful corporations, the more powerful and active government is, the more corporations can tilt the playing field. PJ O'Rourke put it well - "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."