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Let's clear up the myth about capitalists liking free enterprise. December 10, 2012 11:26 am bowser

Free enterprise – open, competitive markets where the most efficient will prevail with the consumer.  The stated goal of capitalists and conservatives.

Pure nonsense.  The last thing capitalists want is “free enterprise” and they work very hard to avoid it.  They want government regulated monopolies in the form of, say, drug patents, subsidized from day one and then monopolized.  They want to government ordered to pay the highest possible price, not a price determined by market forces.

They want subsidies, WorldCom and Enron demonstrated they want more monopolies, they want time and material contracts, they want regulations and bonds the small guy can’t meet, they want to freeze out competition every chance they get.

Let’s forget the myth that “free enterprise” as a conservative value.  It is not, and the very notion is subverted every chance a good “capitalist” gets a chance.

That, like debt reduction, is simply a sound bite.  Sort of like family values, something they preach and don’t really give a rip about.

A platform as hollow as the cake from which pops the scantily clad girl.  Only in this case it’s a cake from which pops Scrooge, wallowing in bucks.

  • Good. Take the power away from the government to do these things for them. Next? by TB 2012-12-10 11:28:12
    • What are you left with for sound bites? Nothing. A totally hollow economic system. by bowser 2012-12-13 01:58:09
      • You would have to pry government support for their free enterprise from their cold, dead hands. by bowser 2012-12-10 12:06:31
        • What's your solution? by TB 2012-12-10 12:11:58
          • End Oil and Farm subsidies by RobVG 2012-12-10 18:08:07
            • Okay by me. by TB 2012-12-10 22:06:39
              • We've got to quit thinking like that. by RobVG 2012-12-11 18:56:09
              • Ain't got no car, and its breaking my heart. by ER 2012-12-10 18:49:44

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