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Originally Posted by LizAEBN
Sure, and Thoreau was an awesome thinker - no dispute there. I don't ask the govenment to support me, and I support a free market. Sadly, no one trusts on - you can look around at other threads on this very board to see that.
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Laissez-faire has never really worked. It is a system that is not really a system. Someone is always sucking off the government tit and the government grows.
It is broken. Probably beyond repair. I look at functional countries that have a decent distribution of the wealth like Sweden, Canada, Norway, Finland and even (with some large reservations) the UK, where government "interferes" for the good of the electorate, not just the rich and you have things like social housing and social medicine and I see a successful society where the rich may not be as rich (UK excepted) but the poor are not quite as poor. In any of these countries New Orleans would be fixed by now. That is a sad commentary on how dysfunctional the so called free market has become.
Liberalism, socialism are phrases that are spat out as epithets in the United States which is curious because a whole bunch of high rolling capitalists are begging for socialism to get them out of this mess. Why? So they can do it all over again with no controls (socialist) over their bad behaviour?