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Ivan Satori <satori@cgocable.net> wrote in message
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> Scott Willing <NOTwilling2BSPAMMED@mts.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > > . . .
> > > Capitalists don't make laws. Governments do. The bigger the
government,
> > the
> > > easier to get with things away.
> >
> > Actually we agree on the problem, but perhaps disagree on the mechanism.
> >
> > I don't have a problem with the *ideal* of good, clean capitalist
> > competition, but by hook or by crook, it seems it never stays clean. As
> soon
> > as the opportunity presents itself, competition is disadvantaged or
> > eliminated by some manipulation or other, whether institutionalized by
the
> > government, or just corporate dirty tricks.
> >
> > The "better product at a better price" idea of free competition is a
> quaint
> > falsehood.
>
> In reality today? Absolutely.
>
> How did it come about? From people who wanted to "improve" on the system.
Or
> more precisely, people who wanted to make career in politics, and found
out
> that this is an argument that the public would buy. The government
> protecting the little guy from the big bad capitalists.
>
> The little guys have more votes, the big capitalists have more money. So
the
> politicians have to appease both if they want to succeed.
>
> Not a very good basis for finding reasonable, effective and efficient
> solutions.

Amen.

If people really want to take back control, all they need to do is vote with
their dollars. A dollar is far more powerful than a vote, and every day is
election day.

-smw