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There have been qualifiers, sensible qualifiers, attached to society which have laid a framework that indirectly addresses what your talking about. That's why we have the understanding of inalienable rights and it's where all of this started to fall apart.
It's far too easy to just shift the responsibility to higher earners and the more personally responsible Americans by leaning on the government to fund all of this.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
Simple daddy. One, socialism is nowhere in sight. There is no socialism in the US, only capitalism and varying degrees of how it is utilized to make it work without collapsing in on itself.
it is the failed side of our capitalist economy
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: tanstaafl
Who has told you that welfare is socialism. Socialism is workers owning the means of production.
Right, what we have now is a top down fascist form of capitalism I agree with you.
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And of course laissez faire would be much better except for one thing. In capitalist philosophy and practice, Mr. Smith did not address how the run-away control of the economic structure was to be avoided . What he took on faith was that competition would prevail and any capitalist organization would automatically fail if it did not abide by the idealist principles espoused with in his vision of the market place. In this he was short sighted and what we have now is as you say a fascist corporate system of economics. Not socialism
some form by alloiwng that the proper role of government in a laissez faire economic system is simply the protection of individual Rights and Liberties.
The individual is the central focus followed by that individuals tribal affiliation. Put another way, its less a case of the "center will not hold" than it is more the case that "there is no center".
Ever wonder what precipitated this or contributed to it? One big factor and its a simple one is "Madison Avenue Advertising agencies and Television.