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Originally Posted by Fiannan
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.
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The things is that it's not just the corporations and their rich board members who suffer when these big companies fail. The damage hits the workforce and ruins middle class investments. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of this corporate socialism that we've concocted as a solution. The companies that have collapsed need to take their hits and we need to use that $700 billion to help the people who have lost their retirement investments and are struggling to keep a roof over their heads. The middle class can't survive this type of economic environment.
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Remember, Robin Hood was no socialist -- he was an anti-government militia organizer.
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Now you're just getting into semantics.
