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The fact that there are so many totally ignorant posters on a liberal website who think that government regulation is responsible for our economic woes shows just how willfully blind we are as a nation.
I hope the koolaid tastes good: "I'm a social liberal but an economic conservative." There is no such thing, FYI, but you may figure that out the hard way.
Over 100 years of history clearly warns us of the cliff we're heading toward and still all these people who buy totally discredited propaganda about free markets and deregulation (the fact that they don't even know that you need regulation to have a free market tells you all you need to know about their logic capabilities).
I'm sorry I'm losing my temper, but if Salon.com splits 50/50 on this stuff then we're going careen right over the cliff. While I'll be able to say "I told you so" in a couple years, I don't relish it. At the least, I hope that those arrogant posters here see all of their assets dry up so they can stand in line for soup with their fellow Americans. They could use some human company.