How some think
Jan. 13th, 2010 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This was actually published today, by a conservative commentator, as something worth saying in a discussion:
The truth is that we don't have a free market -- government regulation and management are pervasive -- so it's misleading to say that "capitalism" caused today's problems. The free market is innocent.
The amount of non sequiturs, false issues and sheer ignorance that underlie this passage is mind-numbing. And such a man is paid to write this, and people pay to read it.
P.S.: There are people on the opposite who are just as bad. But I tend to stay away from their stuff, and therefore get less instance of outright idiocy than I meet on the right.
The truth is that we don't have a free market -- government regulation and management are pervasive -- so it's misleading to say that "capitalism" caused today's problems. The free market is innocent.
The amount of non sequiturs, false issues and sheer ignorance that underlie this passage is mind-numbing. And such a man is paid to write this, and people pay to read it.
P.S.: There are people on the opposite who are just as bad. But I tend to stay away from their stuff, and therefore get less instance of outright idiocy than I meet on the right.
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Date: 2010-01-13 02:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-13 03:21 pm (UTC)"The truth is that we don't have a free market.... so it's misleading to say that the free market caused today's problems. The free market is innocent."
Do you think he is seriously saying that because the US does not have an unfettered free market, that it doesn't have a capitalist ecconomic system?
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Date: 2010-01-14 08:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-14 08:07 am (UTC)