To: Casloy
How can you call yourself a conservative and not believe in a free market in which an employer and an employee negotiate a contract for salary and benefits without the government or anyone else sticking their nose in it? "Believe"? Is the free market ideology a religion? You bet it is, a false one. The "free market" society never existed and never will.
Why? Because the market is an aspect of the economy and economy is an aspect of social life. Market is a product and a tool created by the society. If deregulated it becomes a destroyer.
To me, this is so at the core of conservatism that I don't understand how you can believe otherwise and be anything other than a liberal.
Freemarket or laissez fair ideology is ANTI-conservative. It is not coincidence that it is being called liberalism outside of USA.
456 posted on
05/27/2005 5:37:26 PM PDT by
A. Pole
(Mandarin Meng-tzu: "The duty of the ruler is to ensure the prosperous livelihood of his subjects.")
To: A. Pole
"Believe"? Is the free market ideology a religion? You bet it is, a false one. The "free market" society never existed and never will.
In a way, it is like a religion, if you question it, you get smacked as a heretic.
Why? Because the market is an aspect of the economy and economy is an aspect of social life. Market is a product and a tool created by the society. If deregulated it becomes a destroyer.
You need to strike a fine balance at some point. Over regulation, you get things like pure socialism or communism, no regulation you end up having the weak and the average be at the mercy of the strong "ubermenschen," of course, you can get that under socialism/communism too. We need some meeting in the middle, we need responsible regulation in some areas to protect the average person as well as the general welfare of the country and her sovereignty. Power, economic or political is bad wen you have it in too few hands.
463 posted on
05/27/2005 5:59:51 PM PDT by
Nowhere Man
(Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
To: A. Pole
I'll be as succint as possible.
You're a dingbat.
485 posted on
05/27/2005 8:36:25 PM PDT by
Chef Dajuan
(Its a pork fat thing!)
To: A. Pole
Because the market is an aspect of the economy and economy is an aspect of social life. Market is a product and a tool created by the society. If deregulated it becomes a destroyer. I was wrong, you aren't a liberal, you are a marxist.
510 posted on
05/28/2005 8:56:38 AM PDT by
Casloy
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