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Originally Posted by The Demon
Open an economics book. And ideally, a completely free market is the way to go. What we've had over the past century was a somewhat free market with some form of government manipulation, whether a lot or a little. When it was a lot, we were screwed. When it was a little, we were better off.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0312-08.htm
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Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class
by Thom Hartmann
Here are a couple of headlines for those who haven't had the time to study both economics and history:
1. There is no such thing as a "free market."
2. The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans are discovering).
The conservative belief in "free markets" is a bit like the Catholic Church's insistence that the Earth was at the center of the Solar System in the Twelfth Century. It's widely believed by those in power, those who challenge it are branded heretics and ridiculed, and it is wrong.
In actual fact, there is no such thing as a "free market." Markets are the creation of government.