So you think fear is guiding me.
Can't argue with stupid...and since you are making a stupid argument...
I'm just guessing that you are a relatively young person, full of ideas of some utopian free market, that never existed, will never exist, because human nature being what it is, would never allow the poor to be free.
I'm also guessing that you don't know that during the times, especially following the industrial revolution and before the action of government to curb the abuse of the workers by the industrialists, when government did not protect the people to ensure their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...that business owners treated women, children, and people of all colors like equipment, and not human beings.
I am just guessing that you are a relatively young person, because you have this pipe dream that if there was no government, that business would solve all the problems facing America today.
Sorry son, you are not in touch with anything resembling reality.
Free markets lack the necessary balance not to trample all over the right to life, liberty, and happiness for those on the bottom of the economic pyramid schemes that capitalism has always created...
It is a sad reality, and part of the maturation process you seem to be avoiding...but you will never be one of the ruling class.
Just like poor black kids with little talent play basketball dream that one day they will play in the NBA, you are like so many dreamers here at ET that think they are going to be rich, rich, rich trough the venues of capitalism.
Maybe one day your foolish dreams will shatter, and you will awaken from your self induced and vapid mindless coma thinking that we don't need balance between the interests of the many and the few with power...but I doubt it.
Regularly I see the right wingers vote in candidates who actually take steps to weaken the middle class...leaving a greater disparity between the average person and the ruling class.
You think think that somehow a free market will mean a game of capitalism that is not rigged by the elite...which just makes you a fool.
It has only been a few generations where America (or the world for that matter) has seen a strong middle class.
That middle class is being systematically destroyed by the actions of both government and the aristocracy...because the government serves the aristocracy, and not the other way around.
Sorry son, but you got is all ass backwards. Anyone who doesn't understand the nature of human beings, and doesn't think that human beings need their drives regulated by laws and a strong government enforcing the need to act in a civilized manner is smoking the good stuff for sure.
So good luck with your juvenile dreams and the foolish philosophy of unbridled capitalism as the solution to all of the problems...
Quote from Timmy.Geithner:
@OPTIONAL777
This argument is useless, because:
Your assumption is that government protects you against the possible tyranny of large corporations.
What I'm saying is that, government is the tyranny. Government is a corporation, it's a monopolistic corporation.
A democratic government is no exception, because anyone in power knows, the average person is fucking stupid. Thus democracy is no better than communism.
Expecting government (democratic, communist, fascist, or what the fuck have you) to protect you against corporate evil, is like asking Satan to protect you against a daemon.
The example you provided of the bush era, where deregulation had caused financial problems, can not be used as a basis to what would happen in a free market economy. Because America is a half-ass capitalist. The government fucks the people by deregulating the large corporations they are in bed with, and regulating the fuck out of small business and any entity that attempts to compete with government or any of their buddy corporations.
Large US corporations are the minions of the US government. They are sub corporations of the large monopolistic corporation.
Anyhow this argument is over. Because it's not going to get anywhere. Like I said, it is fear that is guiding you, just like how it guides most Americans. You fear that under a truly free market economy, those with wealth and power will take away your rights. They already have, and they did it through the government you so believe protects you. And like I said, Americans are guided by their emotions, because the child within them was raped by their government, thus they fear authority and believe government to be their true parents that will always want the best for them.
Anyhow as the US economy deteriorates, it will become more visible, to anyone who wants to see, as to who the real tyrant is.