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alc2748 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Please tell us what shock caused China's and India's transition to a market economy. The state socialist regimes simply saw their system wasn't working. Thanks to embracing market economies, currently 70 million people per year worldwide are escaping poverty about 40% from China and India. There has been no external boogie man coersing these changes. The coersion occurs in leftist regimes controlling people's lives and telling them how they should help their fellow man. What arrogance.
adog262 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
That is true, the government should not be doing surpluses anymore, or at least they should lower them. It was necessary for the country during the 1930's, but it isn't needed anymore.However,sometimes interference is needed by the government to promote commerce. If every farmer had an attitude and just grew crops everywhere in the land, wouldn't that interfere with landowners trying to build restaurants?Complete capitalism does have its flaws, though it is better than any other systems.
adog262 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You are right, attacking any nation involves the deaths of thousands. While war is a solution to grief, it is also a cause. Not even World War 2 was good because millions died as a result. Skip the political bargain, lives are at stake.The war in Iraq though was was necessary. Sadaam Hussein was an evil dictator who killed hundreds of thousands in his reign. Not only that, he also was threatening to use the Euro instead of the American dollar to purchase oil. That's why U.S. went to war.
kewlkewl12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
what is the definition of freedom? is attacking another sovereign country an act of freedom? It may be true for americans, but not for iraqis, for instance. freedom is so vapid and subjective, it doesn't have a usage beyond the merely politically pragmatic.
kewlkewl12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Your not making any sense. In the free-market ideology, government interference is distortion of the market, thus distortion of competition. What is the myth of the free market is that G8 countries do not follow the free market in large parts of its economy, namely food production.The cost of food is made artificially low through subsidies (thus, the food that is wasted by being literally thrown into the ocean) and protection of local growers through tariffs denying import from poor nations.
adog262 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
We don't dump them in the ocean, we eat them. Since when did I last see food being literally dumped in the ocean? Who know, maybe you are right, but I am confused.You are right about controlling food prices. Now, the United States is not like China where they would literally tell you which crops the government owns.However, the U.S. does pay surpluses to farmers to regulate the market. The reason for it is because if farmers grow too many crops, then that interferes with competition.
adog262 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
What makes you think I'm American? I'm confused. :?Anyways, a belief in freedom is simply that. Like Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" We all believe in freedom, silly! The question is this: at what point does it go too far?Bush? Bush who? Oh yeah, the last president of the United States of America! From day one, I supported him. He believes in freedom just as well as Barack Obama, our current president, does. :)
kewlkewl12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
whats a belief in freedom? Is it like Bush's believe in freedom? Stupid american who believes in their own freedom but not others?
kewlkewl12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
the US always control its food prices. You guys buy most of the food farmers produce, to maintain a stable price. If you guys have too much of food, you just dump them in the ocean. most government on earth has food prices control, if food prices goes out of control, it fundamentally threatens the basic polity of a society.
caszper87 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
What an idiot. |
