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Originally Posted by dbotsfordtat
I should have written "good government" over private business, something our country hasn't experienced very often in its past. The problem I see with the profit motive (greed), and big business is the lack of transparency. They cook the books and everything looks hunky-dory until the problems are so big they threaten the entire system. This is pretty obvious today and seems to be a fairly regular feature of our system. Government mostly suck's unless its compared to these huge Corporations running amok under the guise of the free market. Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
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DR ... the graft and waste and sheer incompetence of government so outstrips what any private businesses are capable of most people don't even see it. It's so big you can't get back far enough away to put it in perspective.
The same people who are right now telling Chrysler and GM how to NOT lose billions are in the very next room losing trillions.
All the problems with these big corporations can be traced back directly to government regulations and interventions.
-the government encouraged banks to make more home loans to low income folks through Fannie and Freddie ... next step disaster
-the government wants gas prices high to force us all into small cars ... next step auto company collapse
-the government forces ethanol use ... next step food price increases, famine and rioting in the third world
Everywhere the market isn't working you'll find the heavy hand of politicians in the background trying to force us all into behavior that they prefer.
Government Motors will not be building a muscle car with 400 hp for much longer ... that's what we want to drive but its not what the government wants us to drive ....