Your argument has failedkalm wrote:My agenda is to argue politics.youngterrier wrote: I love how you keep using this term when ironically the results of your progressive agenda will result in such economy more so than a free market....
Both ideological extremes can lead to a reduction in liberty and a wealth gap. Or do you really think the aristocracy in feudal europe were a bunch of collectivists?
I believe in a strong middle class. Partly because that's where I was raised, partly because those are my current customers, and mostly because that is what's best for the country and my children's future. We have gone through one of the most extended periods of financial deregulation, low taxes, supply side economics in the history of our country. We have swung wildly toward the "free market" side of the ideological coin. How is the middle class doing?
We haven't had a free market. A free market would be, for lack of a better term, "free" of such government entities such as the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is destroying the middle class with its inflation. The inflation, however, makes it easier for the government to spend money instead of raising taxes and borrowing money. I can go on and on about how the Federal Reserve and the welfare state is responsible for most of our economic troubles, but I see that Baldy tried to scratch the surface earlier and simply put, you're allergic to facts.