Fundamental Impossibility of "Fascism"
No Corporation can force anyone to do anything. Economic power is NOT in any way, shape, or form comparable to political power in a Capitalistic system. If there's a "wall of separation between government and business" then businesses would not "buy" politicians, because what could a politician sell them? The "flaws" that exist in our system exist precisely because the government got involved. EVERY failure of business you've listed can be traced DIRECTLY to government involvment.
Taking a graph, and charting the jobless rate during various presidencies is nonsense, Hoover was as much responsible for the Great Depression as I spoons are responsible for Rosie O'Donnel being fat, or guns are for crime. I've told you before correlation != causation Statistics 101. Additionally, the measurement for "joblessness" has always been fuzzy at best, were you aware FDR didn't count people on welfare as being jobless? Further the implication is that Bush is somehow a representative of Laissez-faire Capitalism, he sure as Milton Friedman ain't.
3 MAJOR factors in the current recession:
1. TSA: the "increased" security at airports created an indirect cost on the rest of the economy measured in wasted hours that could be put to more productive use, as well as the creation of jobs that would be better off in other sectors where they would produce wealth. The direct costs of putting an armed guard on every flight would be greater, but would save on the order of HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars to the general economy.
2. The Microsoft Trial was the catalyst for the whole debacle. Every billion dollars MS spends defending itself against absurd claims of monopoly is a billion dollars they can't spend creating new wealth (which in turn results in new jobs).
3. Steel Tariffs: we spend, as mentioned by me in a previous thread where we discussed how you don't know economics, $128,063 per job we "save" in the steel industry. It would be cheaper to just write them a check for the rest of their lives, than it is to impose protective tariffs.
Government creates jobs? Pfff, FDR didn't do a darned thing to stop the depression, if you read the latest scholarly research on it, FDR is coming out with egg all over his face. Dozens of economists, including 2 nobel prize winners have identified all sorts of problems with FDR's new deal. Even the TVA was a waste.
-Morgan
No Corporation can force anyone to do anything. Economic power is NOT in any way, shape, or form comparable to political power in a Capitalistic system. If there's a "wall of separation between government and business" then businesses would not "buy" politicians, because what could a politician sell them? The "flaws" that exist in our system exist precisely because the government got involved. EVERY failure of business you've listed can be traced DIRECTLY to government involvment.
Taking a graph, and charting the jobless rate during various presidencies is nonsense, Hoover was as much responsible for the Great Depression as I spoons are responsible for Rosie O'Donnel being fat, or guns are for crime. I've told you before correlation != causation Statistics 101. Additionally, the measurement for "joblessness" has always been fuzzy at best, were you aware FDR didn't count people on welfare as being jobless? Further the implication is that Bush is somehow a representative of Laissez-faire Capitalism, he sure as Milton Friedman ain't.
3 MAJOR factors in the current recession:
1. TSA: the "increased" security at airports created an indirect cost on the rest of the economy measured in wasted hours that could be put to more productive use, as well as the creation of jobs that would be better off in other sectors where they would produce wealth. The direct costs of putting an armed guard on every flight would be greater, but would save on the order of HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars to the general economy.
2. The Microsoft Trial was the catalyst for the whole debacle. Every billion dollars MS spends defending itself against absurd claims of monopoly is a billion dollars they can't spend creating new wealth (which in turn results in new jobs).
3. Steel Tariffs: we spend, as mentioned by me in a previous thread where we discussed how you don't know economics, $128,063 per job we "save" in the steel industry. It would be cheaper to just write them a check for the rest of their lives, than it is to impose protective tariffs.
Government creates jobs? Pfff, FDR didn't do a darned thing to stop the depression, if you read the latest scholarly research on it, FDR is coming out with egg all over his face. Dozens of economists, including 2 nobel prize winners have identified all sorts of problems with FDR's new deal. Even the TVA was a waste.
-Morgan
