Marx,
The solution I am suggesting, laissez-faire capitalism, has never been a reality in this or any other country. The closest we ever got to the ideal was perhaps the Andrew Jackson Administration. Every example you site [once again!] is not an example of laissez faire OR CAPITALISM. What I am advocating is CHANGE. You [and anybody who voted happily on November 4th ] are a conservative, voting to preserve the status-quo quid pro quo! The goddamned “corporate giants” you rail against were created by the political entrepreneurs and the politicians who regulated and trust-busted the competition right out of the market place.
Corporations didn’t even exist in the 19th Century. Failed airlines, car-makers and financial institutions are subsidized and bailed out by politicians with tax-payer money. I’m not going to say this again: ANYTHING IN EXISTENCE THAT YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT THE ECONOMY WAS CAUSED BY SOME FORM OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN THE ECONOMY. In a free market, failure is punished by reality...no subsidies, no bailouts. Because there are real consequences, there is less failure.
You know, man had never set foot on the moon before the Apollo missions. All of the problems that made that trip possible had to be solved before anyone could actually experience a stroll on the lunar surface. We were successful because our answers were correct IN THEORY. We proved our theories correct when we actually accomplished the mission. Had we never launched Apollo 11, our theories would remain correct. The truth is not always tried.
You criticize me for reading books? In fact, I’ve read hundreds since the last time we met. If not for trade and the sharing of knowledge, there would be no reason for men to live in communities or cooperate with each other at all. We’d all be better off on desert islands free to do whatever the hell we please. Of course I learn from books...really great books. I keep lessons that I determine are of value, discard others for reasons, and, in the end, form my own opinions. Every word I have written has come straight out of my head. You seem to be arguing one can only know something if he has actually experienced it. You made the same sort of arguments when we debated face-to-face 12 years ago. For example: You hate the Reagan Administration. Why? Because you personally were denied a college loan. I remember everything, Marx.
Collusion is another cynical myth that doesn’t exist for long if markets are left alone. If colluders attempt to hold prices artificially high for any length of time, competitors enter the market place and sell the same good or service for less. The colluders are A. forced to lower their prices, or B. go out of business. If McDs, BK, and Wendy’s got together and decided to raise their prices by 50%, that would be a boon for Checkers and Jack-in-the-Box. If ALL fast food burger joints in existence joined the cartel, I’d open Tracy Burgers and make a fortune! You really know almost nothing about free enterprise, Marx. You believe every pack of lies the political entrepreneurs and politicians have sold you...they are after all the ones who control our ridiculous public school curricula. Is Florida Memorial a public school?
Your thoughts on the Tylenol story are just disgusting.
Donn
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"If McDs, BK, and Wendy’s got together and decided to raise their prices by 50%, that would be a boon for Checkers and Jack-in-the-Box. If ALL fast food burger joints in existence joined the cartel, I’d open Tracy Burgers and make a fortune!"
Tracy Burgers? Haha, I thought this was pretty funny. But on a serious note, ever since the DHS Assesment on rightwing extremist, and being felt "lead-on" by all my once role models "Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingram, Glenn Beck", then find out that a leftwing extremist was released as well, I feel betrayed by my once "heroes". I mean there is some things to be outraged about, such as grouping EVERYONE who believes in say one of the elements in the Assessment, as a rightwing extremist is almost a little far-fetched. I do believe their are terrorist on both sides, I do. But grouping everyone into that pile is a little, well exaggerated. But back to the betrayal, I feel now that all I am getting is propaganda, and basically just, ranting bullshit. Point being, I find myself reading more about you say(your blog), then I do about the great, Sean Hannity. That is why I said that, the other day at the picnic. I just can't find their words as creditable, as I once did, when I was hanging at every word they spoke.
Back to Yellow Dog, I look forward to Marcus's farewell address, along with your final rebuttal. Good day!
Thanks for your words Chris. Of course you're right about the propaganda, however, I must remind you: Not everything that comes out of their mouths is untrue. That being said, what you have expressed an interest in is Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, not me. I'm not a complete second-hander. Many of the topics I have written about were never addressed specifically by Rand; but she was and is my teacher. I would encourage you to read everything she's written...fiction and non-fiction.
My lyric response to the book Atlas Shrugged seems appropriate right now. I wrote: "All of the truth that I have none in spite of my schools; there on the pages I learned how to read, I found confirmation of the rational me."
Donn
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