I grew bored of Friedman's columns saying the same thing over and over and over again, but I think us Dems would be wise to learn a few things from Tony Blair.
Dems do need to embrace free market ideas, but with deliberate caution. We don't want unbridled capitalism turning America into a corporate state (worse than it already is.) Last time that happened, the fascists started a big war that killed a lot of people. My idea is to focus on small and medium enterprises, you know, the ones that are run by individuals or a few people. That way we don't have to dirty our hands with corporate greed.
I remember when Blair first won office. It was the February right after Clinton started his second term. We celebrated that night, convinced that the world had taken a turn for the better. Somehow, we got off track and let the wingnuts take over.
you can start by getting government off the back of your sainted small and medium sized enterprises.
ReplyDeleteViva La Reagan
Hey- your side is the one that passed the bankruptcy bill. Not exactly small business friendly.
ReplyDeletesorry, my party has no representative in Congress
ReplyDeletewell, you voted for big business
ReplyDeletesorry, you got the wrong person.
ReplyDeletei vote on personal freedom and liberty, among other things.
uh huh. you are not free if your society is in shambles. if there is high crime, for example, that affects your safety, you are not free. if people are not able to declare bankruptcy, they will go further into debt and desperation. who's to say they won't turn to crime to help them overcome their problems? it will affect us all.
ReplyDeletep.s. your party has no rep in congress- shows how much in the minority you are!!!!
ReplyDeleteyou treat freedom and liberty as objects. they are ideals.
ReplyDeleteone can be in the worst jail, solitary confinement, never see another person, and still be free.
you confuse the materiality and consumerism with rational thought and free mind.
i have a free mind. wherever i go, i am free!!
uh huh. right. when you are getting shot for walking through a neighborhood and are dying, you tell me how free you are. freedom and liberty are ideals, but ideals are not something that can never be obtained.
ReplyDeleteyour life must suck if you can never live your ideals...
p.s. idealism is leftist.
you can live them everyday. i also use logic to not put myself into these situations which you must think every american experiences.
ReplyDeletep.s. stupidity = leftism
oh, you stay in your house all day long, huh? you never go outside, never are exposed to the chance that some guy who lost his job due to the economy might have been drinking all day to drown his sorrows, got behind the wheel of a car, and ran you down on the sidewalk?
ReplyDeletei know what you mean. millions are killed each year due to this.
ReplyDeletep.s. the sky is falling too
it was just an EXAMPLE. there are thousands of this type of scenario.
ReplyDeletedon't leave your house today.
lol. i am not the one afraid of the world. whether it be glaciers "melting", "foul" air & water, or any other phony environmental BS cooked up by phony left-wing scientists!!
ReplyDeleteso you'll let your child ride around at age six without a bike helmet?
ReplyDeleteof course!!!
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