[MD] BBC documentary 'the trap'

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Hey Khaled:

On 16 Aug 2009 at 19:21, khaledsa wrote:

> 
> [Platt]
> > Adam Curtis and his fellow-traveler socialists might learn something 
> > if  they read Lila about the value of the free market and the role of
> DQ 
> > in the evolution of life.
> > 
> [Khaled]
> Platt
> 
> It would be very interesting how a true free market would operate, and
> the more I look at it, the more I think that it has its merits.
> Unfortunately though, every time I look around, all I see is corporate
> socialism.
> 
> I will repeat the examples I gave earlier.
> 
> 1. When Large banks, corporations and auto makers fail, the government
> should not step in and bail them out. They made their mistakes and
> society should not be forced to pay their welfare.

Agree. The government had no business doing what it did. It also had no 
business forcing banks to make loans to deadbeats, the proximate 
cause of the financial breakdown..

> 2. Free trade and outsourcing should go both ways. If a pharmaceutical
> company is getting its raw materials from overseas because they can get
> it cheaper, then I as a consumer, should also be able to buy my
> medication from the most economical place I can find. Government agents
> should not be stopping me at the border and confiscating my prescription
> medication that I am bringing in From Canada, Mexico, or wherever. The
> only reason I am being stopped, is that big-pockets-pharma-lobby managed
> to get a bill passed under the pretensions of protecting me, to stop me
> from importing my medications.

Agree. The government has no business interfering with free trade.


> 3. If big corporations want to do business in unfriendly countries, then
> they should use their own private armies to go take over and do business
> there. Not push our countries into wars for their benefits.

Agree. Government has no business to fight wars to benefit favored 
corporations.

> 
> A free market is a 2 way road.

Absolutely -- a two way exchanges among free people for mutual value 
(benefit).  Government's proper role is to defend the free market from
biological crimes.

Regards,
Platt



 


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