Occupy Wall Street

I'm only using it as a term because I know it's the kind of expression conservatives can understand. I find that resorting to too much technical lingo in economics often becomes misconstrued. Despite the terminology, my points are both legitimate and truthful.

Furthermore, I have an interest in letting people know that nanny statism isn't a liberal tool. It's employed equally along the political spectrum.

 

Call it what you want, it's still nanny statism — or, if you prefer, economic protectionism, interventionism, and regulation.

You should at least admit that you aren't interested in free market capitalism because your desire for these things runs counter to those principles.

You want the government to step in and make America strong. You want big government telling companies and individuals what they can and cannot do. That's no free market. Quite the opposite.

 

Okay, you want a socialized workforce and a heavily regulated and protectionist economy.

What other aspects of free market capitalism do you reject?

 

But he does support the greatly increased operating costs that would result in tighter importation regulations and hiring restrictions.

A restriction on importing goods is heavy regulation. A restriction on companies forcing them to hire Americans only is heavy regulation.

Government intervening in the economy by legislating the complete domestication of the workforce sounds more like socialism than free market capitalism, does it not? Do you know what a free market is? Do you know that socialism and capitalism mix?

I mean, I don't want to go all Econ 101 on you, but you are being ridiculously self-contradictory here.

 

No, he wants some kind of socialist system whereby Americans are only permitted do business with other Americans.

I think.

I admit I'm still rather confused as to what he wants, for all the contradictions.

 

Thanks to government regulation, unions, and the like.

 

Eddie, I've been reading your damn posts. They don't make sense. Do you honestly think other nations are willingly going to accept a negative balance of trade with an isolationist America? You've got to be kidding me. Especially not at those prices. You're basically talking about a trade war.

Unless, of course, the inevitable happens and the American economy collapses. Then America can be the Third World country it would need to be to be so insular. Heck, even North Korea exports stuff.