Comment by Walt Whitman — June 27, 2006 @ 9:12 am

Perhaps I am way out of my “Leauge” as you say, whatever that is supposed to mean.

But you’re definately way out of your “league”.

give it up maxi pad you are way out of your leauge and nothing you can say or do matters or will get me to stop voicing reason on this moonbat monolog you have going..you have not the intelligence of a clam .

Comment by moonrat bastard — June 27, 2006 @ 9:12 am

Just when I thought you couldn’t be any less articulate, any less erudite, your undereducated brain proves me wrong again.

Well done Hemmingway.

You’re a tribute to your cause.

or this earlier moonbat gem: “hey maybe you can find a black,jewish, transexual,child molester fag who who has had a few abortions to run on the “progressive” party ticket.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha”

that is voicing reason? in what universe?

shame on me though, for taking you the least bit seriously

Of course our invading Muslim holy land would be the best recruiting tool a Muslim religious extremist group could hope for.

What did we think they’d do, toss flowers?

yes, I’m sure I’m not into Communism, Senator McCarthy. Thanks for asking though. And thanks for making baseless assumptions plucked from thin air.

Is that TP telling us to get back on topic?

The “free market” is a misnomer. Our current economy is of course regulated–by courts, by international agreements on tariffs, by Federal Reserve policymakers, by state and federal legislators who pass laws on the minimum wage, on the right to unionize (or not, in “right to work” states), on health and safety standards, on discrimination, on copyright and patent protection, on spending programs allotting research and development dollars. The question isn’t whether to regulate, it’s when and how to regulate, and whether to acknowledge the reality that businesses don’t succeed on their own.

The “free market” is a misnomer. Our current economy is of course regulated–by courts, by international agreements on tariffs, by Federal Reserve policymakers, by state and federal legislators who pass laws on the minimum wage, on the right to unionize (or not, in “right to work” states), on health and safety standards, on discrimination. The question isn’t whether to regulate, it’s when and how to regulate, and whether to acknowledge the reality that businesses don’t succeed on their own.

Good point. Glad you brought it up. This is a very loose definition that can be applicable to even the existing free market system in the USA. Regulation becomes the public’s “means” of producing and distributing and being “owned” by the people. Think about it. The government already subsidzes farmers to grow certain crops instead of others, taxes and tarrifs imports/exports, and controls the eb and flow of the economy through control of interest rates, money production, and so on. The key is the amount of regulation and the amount of trust for the market to “fix itself.” It will fit into either a free-market or state-run economy. I happen to prefer free market (being a small business owner myself), so I suppose for a Socialist, I’m actually “conservative.” ;-) For me, it’s the social aspects that apply to me. Healthcare for everybody and all that. In today’s terms, a single linear graph of political views does not fit. That’s why many systems use a two dimensional grid instead.

I’d never support a state-run economy, but I do support a lot of regulation. I’m a registered Democrat with Socialist ideals. “Very Left” Democrat, I suppose.

I guess I should stop being so nit-picky, considering that I cannot even “nail it down” myself without getting all abstract. I think I just am tired of the thought that all aspects of Socialism deal with state-owned economy, so I tend to get on my soapbox. :-)

So that begs the question, who is actually closer to a Fascist regime that wants everything “state-run?”