It's simple, really. Close the federal government. Without the government in the way, regulating and taxing everything, the free market can be free to do what it does best - solve problems, produce stuff, move products, sell things, provide services. Free markets always do that. Governments get in the way. Remove governments, and free markets will provide everything the world needs, quickly and efficiently, and they will provide jobs and make a profit.
This is the end. We are witnessing collapse of the global economy
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It's simple, really. Close the federal government. Without the government in the way, regulating and taxing everything, the free market can be free to do what it does best - solve problems, produce stuff, move products, sell things, provide services. Free markets always do that. Governments get in the way. Remove governments, and free markets will provide everything the world needs, quickly and efficiently, and they will provide jobs and make a profit.
That works spectacularly well in the places it's been tried like Somalia, definitely worth a try! Fuck all those old people, just let them starve without SS and die without Medicare; who needs COVID. And screw environmental regulations, if you can dump in in the water or air feel free...the Cuyahoga River catching on fire was swell, it kept the nice people of Cleveland warm! No need for federal judges or law enforcement, let Mississippi lynch black folks if they want, states rights yay! Interstates, you never use em or anything transported on them, so forget that. Safety standard for airplanes, who needs 'em. I could go on and on and on, but this post is so tone deaf that I have to believe this must be some failed form of humor?
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There, I fixed it for you. Seriously though, I'm not saying that too much government isn't a bad thing, but the last thing I want to do is leave a crony capitalist in charge of my well being.
Look at it this way, if the markets were just self regulating, all of us retail traders would get totally screwed. Many crooked players would literally steal our fills, bust our trades where we made a profit, and basically do anything to ensure they would always win. The system would implode. There is already enough shady stuff happening in the markets, but without any regulatory oversight, it would be magnitudes worse.
You need a certain amount of regulation. If there wasn't any, your milk would be water and talcum powder for god sakes. The Chinese have already shown how clever they are to sell baby formula that is anything but. Here we at least have the FDA to look out for this stuff.
Without government agencies like this, the human race would not have gotten this far.
I’ve tried - I’ve really tried to get scared of this. I just can’t. Not to say that I can never get scared of it. I’m just not right now. And I have a bio/virology background.
World governments have spent twice as much on WuhanFlu-19 as was spent on WW2. I’m afraid that the alleged cure has made me numb to the disease.
I am truly totally genuinely scared shitless of this situation.
Read up on Spanish flu. This will kill millions. Gun sales are skyrocketing
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/03/31/colorado-gun-sales-coronavirus/
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Yep.
Not in the past 7 recessions in 50 years have jobless claims reached this level. Those grey columns in the chart represent recessions. Who cares if some idiots deep in denial think it's fake. You should be more worried then that something that doesn't exist is causing this much mayhem. If as some idiots say, this is all panic-induced, then that doesn't bode well for when the other shoe drops; and it will.
Gun sales skyrocketed when Obama was elected and for the next 8 years. In my experience, the folks who panic buy guns (as opposed to the vast majority of gun buyers who buy them as a tool or a hobby) are among the least rational among us. If anything that would be a contrarian positive sign.
Wow, that makes no sense. Are you that deep in denial? Most people in this country and world are irrational. If "only irrational people are doing that" as you say, then the supermajority of people fear buying guns is not a positive sign by any stretch of the imagination. Do you live in the Midwest?
Settle down there Beavis. First off, it's possible to think that the pandemic is a serious and unprecedented thing and simultaneously believe that there is no need to panic buy guns. Second, there is no "supermajority' of people panic buying guns anywhere at the moment, that's absurd. I live in a major metro area on the east coast though, so maybe those crazy Midwestern folks are all panic buying guns? Of course I have employees in 15 states including a bunch of Midwestern ones, they all tell me everything is pretty quiet. What's your source for this "supermajority" panic buying guns assertion?
Or are you just arguing with my assertion that doing the opposite of the panic buyers is a contrarian sign? If so you need to stop taking everything so literally. Seriously, settle down, you're jumping everyone's shit in this thread without even bothering to understand that many actually agree with you in broad terms.
It's a serious pandemic. It's going to have serious impacts, I've been arguing that here far longer than you have. But the panic gun buyers aren't going to need their guns to defend their families. And again in my 40+ years around firearms the kind of person who panic buys guns is more likely to shoot themselves then ever be harmed by whatever Boogeyman they're so afraid of.