Free Market Question

[ElNono]

Where you going after the 2 weeks Nono?

Quick pitstop in Dallas, then back to NJ.

[whottt]

Never put your eggs all in one basket.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

interesting thread. My answer is as vague as the question: Motive for the action is the key, imho.

I still have 2 more weeks here in argentina, where socialism is becoming rampant to the extreme (nearing chavez levels). Certainly expected after the '90s, when the country was sold to the free market goodness by the imf, that only ended up in monopolies for some wealthy economic groups that ended up siphoning both the capital and the country's resources.
It's no surprise that you have mostly all socialist governments in this area at this point in time.
Then again, government corruption and waste will swing the pendulum again the other way around to corps eventually, and so the cycle will repeat itself.

+1

[angrydude]

I doubt multi-national corporations with the power you're talking about could even exist without government approval.

[SouthernFried]

When govt takes over stuff..they don't give it back. The pendulum doesn't "swing back" to the "just as evil" corporations.

Why corporations don't last long in socialism.

Govt's always have the power...always. And once you give up any liberty, choice, or freedom to them...you virtually never get that freedom back.

Until my dying day, I'll never understand anyone who want's to give govt more power over their lives. Greed to have something that "someone else" pays for ("it's free, right?")...or envy to get back at others who may have more than them...cannot justify, imho, the loss of freedom for themselves, and their own future generations.

[clambake]

I doubt multi-national corporations with the power you're talking about could even exist without government approval.

angrydude has no clue on how the imf and the world bank do their business.