US government warns it's running out of cash

01-03-2006, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by c312

America was based on Adam Smith's laissez faire economy of little governmental control...We try to keep the economy out of the hands of the government except in a regulatory role (to prevent trusts/monopolies and whatnot) and some other minor exceptions ie: Amtrak and the Post office being governmental corporations...The only reason we have any governmental control is because of the ways capitalism has affected people in different ways in different periods like regulatory commissions after the Great Depression and anti-trust laws from the guilded ages.

I may be wrong, but what I'm getting from what you are saying is that it you think the US government controls the economy which is only true to a very small extent.

america is anything BUT laissez faire. think about it: If the economy was truly a free economy, there would be no tarrifs, there would be no illegal anything, (that means you could buy weed from your local walgreens).

the government is cutting into the economy by controling a trust/monopoly. you see, it is actually the consumer that should control the economy, and it is the consumer that builds a monopoly. look at bill gates. he didn't force anyone to buy Windows, he just provided an alternative with more options and a cheaper price, and that is what the consumers wanted.

have you noticed that most consumers haven't complained about windows (stfu techheads), and most of the lobbyists for anti-trust laws are from companies that compete against microsoft?