Keep believing that moronic Keynesian bull****. The free market works fine when left alone. Wall St isn't capitalism. They abuse the system with their minions in Washington. They made billions rigging the game and when it finally bit them on the ass, they cried to their buddies in Washington who took your money and bailed them out.
How do you figure the government taking people's money and giving it to billionaires has anything to do with "the market"? The market works if left alone but it hasn't been left alone in forever. You liberals abuse the government to advance your social agenda and ruin the market with your meddling bureaucracies and then have the audacity to claim the free market doesn't work.
Has nothing to do with a social agenda. My social agenda is leave people the **** alone. Quit telling people what they can and cannot do to themselves, or who they can and cannot marry, or a woman what she can and cannot do with her own womb. There's my social agenda.
But you want them to lower the rent. Oh, and to make groceries cheaper...and dope should be legal. Get government involved in that. Just don't stop us from marrying goats and killing babies.
sabanfan is right. your plans are much worse. you want to tell a person what they can charge for rent for their own property, and how much they must charge for the food they grew. these things are way more destructive than your irrelevant social issues. your proposed economic idleas are tremendously destructive. infintely more damaging to humans than whatever nonsense social issues you care about. why dont you leave people the F alone? think of the damage drug laws do to us. th violence caused, the money wasted fighting it, the people jailed because of using. all of this pales in comparison to the damage done by attempting to control prices like you propse.
you are saying the market doesnt work because the government helped failed companies? the market would have been happy to not give anyone any bonus, hoss. its your big government that was shoveling the taxpayer dollars into everything. allowing companies to go under is a key to the market. it allows things to evolve. better companies replace crappy ones. but not if idiots governmetn keeps rescuing the crappy ones. supa, sabanfan and i cant start our new company that we run responsibly if the govt is bailing out our competition. so please listen, it isnt the market that failed. the market would have punished those CEOs you hate so much for being rich.
First of all, I am not a lawmaker. And the last time I checked, it's not the people who grow the food, or the people who refine the gasoline that is making the price of commodities go up, it's the fuggin speculators. Hedging bets on commodities and reaping the profits at yours and my and everyone else's expense. http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article23662.html
My big government? The bailouts started under Bush my friend, and if I remember correctly the House Democrats voted against the 1st bailout. I was against the bailouts for exactly that reason. they took the money and instead of doing what they were supposed to do with it, (start loaning again to small businesses) the paid out bonuses. And I don't hate anyone because they are rich. That is such a bogus statement.
