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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:18 am Free market capitalism my ass. The USA is the most corporate socialist country of all. The entire world invests in your bond debt so you can go on your corporate socialist spending sprees. The world gives you the money and then you repay the world by breaking the world banking system with all of your bullshit mortgage schemes. The only free market part of your economy is all of your capitalist multinational corporations must conform to the laws of the country they relocate in when they take your jobs and starve your people IDOT.
Reply to EuroYank
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:01 am
Dude – what you’re talking about is corporatism. Hell yeah that exists here. You can blame that on our government. This country hasn’t seen true capitalism since the 1920′s progressive movement, liberal policies, and the takeover of our economy by the Federal Reserve. We live under an oppressive government when it comes to free market capitalism – we don’t really have it.
If you want to blame somebody – blame our liberal Democrats in Congress who pushed these liberal policies on large corporations forcing them to make bad decisions all in the name of socialism and the common good. That is not what America was founded on.
As far as being the most corporate socialist country of all – that’s bullshit man and you know it. You’re just pissed because I didn’t read your post on Noam Chomsky. Anybody who espouses socialism like that nutjob doesn’t warrant my attention.
Socialism doesn’t work – our failed economy, liberal policies, and global collapse is proof of that. Socialism is nothing more than government sponsored slavery. We are still the freest country in the world – albeit they have become limited because of socialist pricks in our government. But, since we now have a full-blown socialist President – that is about to change. The rest of America is just now beginning to realize what socialism means and we’re not gonna stand for it.
Reply to The BoBo
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 am well what do you call the government bailout of the entire American economy, and all the too big to fail companies, and the wall street bailouts, and the fact that the USA can only run deficits because it is the world reserve currency, hence foreign countries must buy its bonds and invest in the American debt structure that has the whole world financing it. and do not tell me the American government be it Democrat or Republican is not in bed with these same capitalists, and that the 160,000 professional paid lobbyists (former government officials cleaning up from the contacts they made inside government) that get more government bailout (socialism) for the corporations. follow the money and see how much campaign contributions the republicans get from the same corporations they bail out, and if you check the record the Republicans have outspent the Democrats three to one since Roosevelt and have the title of biggest spenders (scroll down half way) http://euroyank.blogspot.com/2008/03/real-50-trillion-national-debt-exposed.html
Reply to EuroYank
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
If you noticed – I’m not disagreeing with you regarding the way things are currently working. This is not free-market capitalism – this is indeed fascist corporatism that we have going on. Big Government and Big Business are in bed together – damned be the people. While the Republicans may be the biggest spenders – their policies also brought in the greatest revenues. The fact of the matter is that regardless of what party has been in control since Roosevelt – this country has moved away from true capitalism and personal responsibilities and freedoms. The Republicans have fallen in bed with the progressives and Democrats. You can’t tell them apart any longer.
Like I said – more real Americans – not the weasel politicians, hollywierdos, and academia elitists – are educating themselves and waking up to the destruction this government has brought upon our country. There is a serious paradigm shift going on and I believe we will start to see real citizen representatives instead of career politicians in government in the coming decade.
Reply to The BoBo
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
You pick an odd place to level your charges and an even odder audience to accuse of hypocrisy. In general, those of us on the conservative/libertarian side of this argument would agree with you. We think that that’s the problem. Government interference in free markets, beyond broad regulatory duties which are it’s proper province, lead to corporations getting into bed with the government in order to game the system in their favor. One good example: I’m in the health insurance industry, and I can tell you that health insurance companies are 100% opposed to one of the key platforms of the proposed Republican health reform: opening up competition across state lines. Health insurance companies love that they can have their own little state monopoly or near monopolies on policies available in a given state. It provides them with great opportunities to design a profitable little fiefdoms all their own. Opening the market to cross border competition would force companies to work harder and perhaps cause them to go under when faced with other, more efficient competitors, and so they oppose it. That’s understandable, but here’s the kicker: The reason health insurance companies find it in their interest to fight to defend their protected territories is because of government interference in the first place. The government has no business limiting competition across state lines in the first place. If the government hadn’t tilted the playing field, there would be a lot fewer incentives for business to crawl into bed with them. That’s a big part of what’s wrong here!
You come in here and you say “Oh yea? Well, what about this? (bailouts) or this? (corporate takeovers) or this? (excessive debt)” Dude, we’re the ones saying that those things are the problem in the first place!
I think your problem is an inability to recognize shades of gray. We’re talking points on a continuum here, and just because the U.S. doesn’t have unrestricted laissez faire capitalism (something that nobody sane in my acquaintance advocates), that doesn’t mean that we have completely adopted a fascist economic system either. We’re a lot further down that road than I think is safe or wise, but we’re still not nearly as far down that road as Europe, and calling what we have free market capitalism compared to what goes on in Europe and most of the world is, IMO, a fair statement. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have problems. Lord, do we have problems. Those problems, however, are caused by the abandonment of the market principles upon which this country was founded, not the reverse.
Reply to Dave
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Dave like your blog says and this is a quote from your blog … Increasingly uncommon common sense THESE are the times that try men’s souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,
shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. -Thomas Paine.My comment to you is … for a nut you crack me up.
Reply to EuroYank