At 03:00 PM 8/2/2009, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 21:20 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> > If you are referring to the courts that is one thing the government
> > needs to do.
> >
> > Water
> > Sewer
> > Trash pickup
> > Streets
> > Police
> > Fire
> > Standing Army
> > and one or two other things.
> >
> > Everything else needs to be removed from the government.
> >
> > Using the courts to resolve a dispute is differently from the
> > government providing for our business needs.
> >
> > Free enterprise.  Do you think as a small business owner I am afforded
> > any protection under the law.  Not happening.  Only the big guys get
> > help from the government.
> >
> > I really have to get a few things done so i will sing off for now.
> >
> > Keep in mind I'm for small government and a free market.
>----
>the problem is that free market has now proven to be a disaster. The
>current economic mess is a direct result of deregulating things like the
>banks, Wall Street, etc.

I want to make sure I understand:  When congress directs Fannie and 
Freddie to make more loans to those who can't pay them back, who have 
to show no income stream, you call that DE-regulation?

I call it stupidity.........

So far, the INTEREST ALONE on the debt Congress has ran up amounts to 
$29 Billion -- that's EVERY MONTH in case your calculator won't show 
that many numbers...

Kick them all out.......and let govt stick to the basics....not 
running / owning banks nor making cars nor telling CEO"s how much 
they can make, nor running an insurance company......

>  While the John Galt logic sounded pretty good,
>it simply didn't work and the great Ayn Rand disciple, Greenspan got it
>all wrong. We are paying the consequences for this now and will be
>paying even more consequences as the next wave of home and commercial
>property foreclosures ramp up, unemployment starts to climb again and
>more and more people's unemployment benefits expire. Free market is a
>great concept that simply doesn't work because corporate interests are
>predatory and irresponsible.
>
>The acknowledgment that essential government services listed above
>justifies the role of government and you want to argue that it should do
>no more. There is much more government should be doing...but they have
>abrogated their responsibilities in things like consumer protection.
>
>Government will always be a problem but no government is a worse problem
>considering the amount of people and the current trend of business
>practices.
>
>
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