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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
This is funny, for a couple of reasons: - You say that American capitalism started to fail even before the vast majority of the capitalist-driven economic expansion---more than the world has ever seen.
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- That 'economic expansion was able to happen because of two reasons...
1)corporatism had already influenced government enough to provide them every advantage..
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2) it hadn't been quite long enough for the feds to have really serious power to control the lives of individuals.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
- You seem to think that American capitalism was negatively affected by the government controlling the economy, and yet you failed to mention anything about the people. It's people who are responsible for corruption under capitalism, not the government. The government and the people who influenced it should be praised for developing the American economy into something more bearable than the disaster-waiting-to-happen under lassez-faire.
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total appeal to insanity.
can people be corrupt? of course, but like most totalitarians, you are unable to accept the premise that law breakers should be punished, so you push for any and every regulation possible to hopefully prevent criminal action. so far you have totally and completely failed as is being shown by the last 30 years of government growth and political cronyism.
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Originally Posted by ASU2003
Maybe we wouldn't be in the financial mess that we are in if that was the case.
If instead of having to sell public buildings, they could rent them out. Instead of selling drug patents the NIH and public universities come up with to private drug companies. Maybe allow NASA to take a space tourist or two into orbit. How about joy rides in military planes for people willing to pay. Or maybe some people would like to go to a weekend boot camp just for the experience. There are a lot of things the government could be making a lot of money on, and a lot of things that just sit unused that taxpayers have paid for and could be earning money.
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I guess we can now add you to the list of people that didn't learn from history.