Quote Originally Posted by Stemis516
why would marx and the russians be turning over in their graves and laughing? their idea to compete with capitalism failed miserably years ago and has been proven not to be effective at all for long term economic growth

for all those bashing capitalism, i would sure like to hear your proposal for a better economic system

you cant expect the government to control the free wills of everyone making economic decisions each day unless you advocate socialism

..the government has to decide how much or how little oversight to provide without undermining the system
1. Because Marx was not all that far off sometimes. We do have class struggle. We have oppression of the poor - causes negativity between classes. And chill before you say I'm not advocating capitalism. I'm saying someday they argued, the US and its greed and capitalism would squander itself because of internal struggle. What's happening now....and in every form - political, social, economic.
2. Nobody is proposing a better solution. Other than how about living without money. Everything still happens...goes on..
every part of the day. Just no money. You go get your groceries, and leave. You drive for free. everything is free.
One might say, well we can't do that because then we can't fund production of goods...or fund the drilling of oil..if there is no price..blah blah. Well you don't need it cause there is no money.
3. The government is controlling the free will of the people economically. And nobody is advocating socialism, but the bailouts and the complete government intervention in the economy is socialist. Just they haven't called it that. They just say you need it. Although you seem to think it isn't?
4. The government shouldn't be telling us how to run everything, you should be telling it how. For the people, by the people, of the people...remember any of that?