Originally Posted by MrColin
There is an argument to be made here but I don't think OP is up to it so I'll give it a go.
We do not have a "free-market" economy in the US. We have a capitalist economy. In the former everyone is free to engage in all kinds of commerce while competition, supply, and demand, do most of the regulation. In a capitalist economy economies of scale, pro-monopolist regulation, and other barriers to entry including collusion and overpriced capital prevent competition and stratify the population by economic class.
That's what I think the OP would probably say.
Whatever you want to call it, it isn't working.
I do know however that before this Global Economy shit that we were the strongest Nation and most looked up to on the planet.
Now we are the scourge thanks to your new market crap.
That's not partisan, that's not hack, it's fact.
There is an argument to be made here but I don't think OP is up to it so I'll give it a go.
We do not have a "free-market" economy in the US. We have a capitalist economy. In the former everyone is free to engage in all kinds of commerce while competition, supply, and demand, do most of the regulation. In a capitalist economy economies of scale, pro-monopolist regulation, and other barriers to entry including collusion and overpriced capital prevent competition and stratify the population by economic class.
That's what I think the OP would probably say.
But he wont because he is a partisan hack
Whatever you want to call it, it isn't working.
I do know however that before this Global Economy shit that we were the strongest Nation and most looked up to on the planet.
Now we are the scourge thanks to your new market crap.
That's not partisan, that's not hack, it's fact.