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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
the reality is that yes, all those systems would be handled better by the private sector. no doubt, all of them.
where would you draw the line? can you not see that the line keeps moving and that one by one our freedoms are disappearing and they're creating a system that traps people in a dependent status, forever relying on the government? all in the name of fairness and equality. i've seen this plan before, it's been tried, and it doesn't work. It doesn't end well.
so your idea is let's go for the full monty, lets do it all. we'll get our jobs, cars, health care, food, housing and all other rations directly from uncle sam?
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actually, no. my idea is that we've lived in a mixed economy all our lives. it's one where the market has successfully co-existed with government programs. and there's legitimate arguments about what is best handled by each.
that isn't a radical idea. what's actually radical is the rhetoric being piped down from the extreme right and repeated here that there is no legitimate role for government in the economy. anytime. anywhere. that cutting government is always good and if we just unleash market forces all problems will be solved.
that seems to fly in the face of the experience we just went through where regulation of banking was loosened to the point that the invisible hand of the market just about steered us into a depression. and were it not for unprecedented government intervention in the economy, would have.
the problem is the right can't seem to learn. the rhetoric is always the same regardless of the circumstance.