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Great post. I agree 100%. Free markets and unchecked corporate greed have run this country into the ground. As much as I pity those who have lost so much in the last several weeks, I must admit that I've gotten a small amount of satisfaction from watching our system of free market capitalism begin to self-destruct. I just hope that our leaders make the change that is necessary and don't just set the system up to fail again.
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That's like saying that if you train to be an exceptional runner, and accidentely twist your ankle, that you should radically alter your routine. What the solution to this mess would be is to allow these big corporations to collapse -- the same way that little mom and pop businesses do everyday. Yet these corporations are allowed to benefit from socialism while middle class people have to live by the rules of the free market. Maybe it's because some of these questionable corporations donate so much money to politicians which is the concept that Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations warned against.
Remember, Robin Hood was no socialist -- he was an anti-government militia organizer.