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Old 10-29-2011, 02:51 PM  
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True. They also try blaming ails on capitalism and democracy, when the United States is neither of those either.
Society can be broken down into 2 sections; economics and social policy.

Not many people argue for an authoritarian state. I agree with the "Libertarians" on this board when they argue for a small state; I'd go one further and abolish the state altogether.

However, I don't believe free market neo-liberalism is the best for society. In fact the closer we move towards it the worse it gets. Corporatism is capitalism unrestrained, monopolistic businesses that have unlimited influence in politics.

Today's financial crises wasn't caused by over-regulation of the markets, it'd be stupid to argue that fact. But your solution to let the banks go bust would have let this entire
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