Monday, April 20, 2009

The Real Pirates


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2 comments:

dworth said...

I don't buy this paranoia regarding the destruction of our free market principles. It is typical right-wing (notice I didn't write Republican) hand-wringing and crops up every time Dems take power or gain the upper hand in committees or wherever.

I know that cartoons are meant to lampoon and hyperbolize situations to make a point. I just don't get the concern that drives this.

I feel much the same about the NRA wackos.

Alan said...

Well, if the government is controlling any fraction of the free market, it is by definition not a fully free market. Since the government is firing CEOs and dictating the type of cars to be made, the type of loans to be made by banks, and the type of insurance that can be sold, free market principles are indeed being eroded. I don't see us ending up as an old-style eastern Europe type of socialist country, but I can envision the US ending up in the miserable state the UK is in.