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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 442864" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>D,</p><p> </p><p>Just a little something to consider on the comments above. You are correct that Bush spoke about gov't getting out of the free market but did he really?</p><p> </p><p>Consider this for a moment.</p><p> </p><p>Did Bush truly in the free market sense get out of the way or did he and his friends "steer" the economy in a certain direction and once the wheels were rolling in the direction they wanted, then they got out of the way?</p><p> </p><p>I contend that Bush was far from a true free market laissez faire kinda guy but like his foreign policy, was interventionist until he got the direction he wanted. Freedom and liberty means you let the people in the market place decide the direction along with winners and losers, not setting up the table for certain winners and let everyone else suffer because of monopolistic and preferred treatment in the marketplace. That's not laissez-faire, that's mercantilism or what we call in the 20th century, Corporatism in the Mussolini tradition. Modernized Fuedalism.</p><p> </p><p>I contend strongly that Bush and company never got out of the way of the market but in fact manipulated it via interventionist means. Let's start calling them out for what they truly are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 442864, member: 2189"] D, Just a little something to consider on the comments above. You are correct that Bush spoke about gov't getting out of the free market but did he really? Consider this for a moment. Did Bush truly in the free market sense get out of the way or did he and his friends "steer" the economy in a certain direction and once the wheels were rolling in the direction they wanted, then they got out of the way? I contend that Bush was far from a true free market laissez faire kinda guy but like his foreign policy, was interventionist until he got the direction he wanted. Freedom and liberty means you let the people in the market place decide the direction along with winners and losers, not setting up the table for certain winners and let everyone else suffer because of monopolistic and preferred treatment in the marketplace. That's not laissez-faire, that's mercantilism or what we call in the 20th century, Corporatism in the Mussolini tradition. Modernized Fuedalism. I contend strongly that Bush and company never got out of the way of the market but in fact manipulated it via interventionist means. Let's start calling them out for what they truly are. [/QUOTE]
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