tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426429136525985774.post1762105168857097630..comments2024-02-24T01:17:50.695-08:00Comments on Don't Forget South Central: avalonsenseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14122620526060358056noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426429136525985774.post-3488955672309270782009-08-30T21:27:23.216-07:002009-08-30T21:27:23.216-07:00These idiot reactionary libertarians. There's ...These idiot reactionary libertarians. There's no evidence whatsoever that free markets have done any other than create widespread misery for everyone except a small number of the ownership class. They told us the same thing when the repealed Glass-Steagall. Competition would drive housing prices down, and the market would make government restrictions completely unnecessary. We're living through the aftermath of that confidence scheme.<br /><br />We need to start pointing our how miserable people were during the 19th century, and reminding people how those were the days of completely free, unrestricted markets. Only the robber barons prospered, everyone else lived in squalor.<br /><br />Steve Barr and Marco Petruzi's Green Dot is to education what Erik Prince's Blackwater is to private military. They're both mercenary organizations, and they both serve reactionary right wing interests.Robert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.com