Originally Posted by Willravel

Can we finally all stand up and admit that Reagan was wrong? Can we at least do that, so we can start regulating the market reasonably again? Every time I even try to skirt this issue, I'm called a communist or fascist, and I feel like I'm the only one that was actually thinking in my freshman economics class.

The deregulated market didn't trickle down. It created more opportunities for incompetency or corruption, that's all. The final cost of the S&L nightmare was something like $500 billion. Here we are again. We've got corporate lobbyists further de-clawing and manipulating government so that they can reign free, and when they fail—and they'll all fail—the weak and cowardly government has to give away billions of our tax dollars.

-Mugatu, Zoolander