Of course, on the other hand, when you don't regulate a free market you get the sub-prime lending crisis, rampant exploitation by the executive / ownership class, and a world of profit-taking and market manipulation. Those are good for us though, right? We don't need a playing field that is level for everyone or anything, hmmm?
Big money, and power-brokering because of it, are the bane of the US system. To fail to see it when the evidence is everywhere is to be deliberately obtuse. The "free-market advantage" myth is a lie being sold by the people at the top to make us believe we are not constantly being disadvantaged by rampant greed and manipulation of the system.
I'm for equal opportunity. I'm for personal responsibility for success. I'm not for the pretense that the US right-wing freedom-to-pillage provides either.
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