Capitalism demands that profit rules over the public interest. The Government (We the People) are charged with protecting the public interest. Consider history...Upton Sinclair opened our eyes to the horrors of the meat processing industry and that led to Teddy Roosevelt signing the Food and Drug Act. It wasn't the industry that suddenly realized it was processing rats, mice, and other foul stuff into our meats...it took a muckraker (aka liberal) Like Sinclair to bring it out in the open.
Bring history to the present...Reagan convinced us that Government IS the problem. All we have to do is take any and all yokes off of the free market and we will all be so much better off because the market knows best...the market will always correct itself and make things right.
Bull.
The market cares ONLY about profit and greed. Ok, I support business doing what it's supposed to do...increase profits and take care of the private sector. However, I believe what the founders believed...We the People, in the form of government, must protect the public interest. The devil is in the details of course, but we've tried Reaganomics and it failed. Now get out of the way and go lick your wounds. If our government is up to the task, it's time to change things...for the betterment of the public's interest, not Wall Street.
Just my 2 cents.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
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