Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
You're kidding, right?
Unrestrained business gave us folks like Rockefeller and Carnegie, who broke contracts with labor with murder and who destroyed competition through unfair monopolistic business practices. Is that the sort of "no government intervention" you advocate before defrauding the shareholders of various banks and leaving our Country?
Your playbook is Atlas Shrugged, not Atlas Mugged
Even as a Libertarian, certain government regulation is needed to promote a fair, open and unrestrained marketplace.
Economically I couldn't define a whole hill of difference between the right wing socialist and the left wing socialist who ran for office in this election. The last balanced budget we enjoyed was under Gingrich'e leadership (who I supported with donations during the Primary).
There's regulation.. and there's regulation. I do not advocate going back to Carnegie times, but the suffocating heavy handedness of this administration is gonna leave us in gridlock for the forseeable future.
And FWIW, Gingrich and Bill Clinton BOTH benefited from the dot com runup, and I cannot give either one's policies much credit for the boom we all enjoyed at that time. That and Clinton had the good sense to move to the center in his second term.
And yes I am kidding about the credit card thingy... I think Argentina might have an extradition treaty.