http://www.bloggernews.net/123224 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 27 May 2012 12:05:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/123224#comment-1461276 watcher39 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:51:51 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/123224#comment-1461276 The answer is a). You're deliberately misjudging and misconstruing both Harry Reid's remarks and the situation in America today. The free market is an important, vital concept, but it's not an immutable physical law like that of gravity. And the free market as described by the Scottish moral philosophers rarely exists because it is continually distorted by those who hold great economic powers. It's not bloated government that brought us to the brink of depression, but a bloated plutocracy of bankers, hedge funds, and other wielders of corporate and economic power who routinely buy members of Congress -- and have had the Republican Party in particular pretty much on retainer for most of the last 30 years. The answer is a). You’re deliberately misjudging and misconstruing both Harry Reid’s remarks and the situation in America today. The free market is an important, vital concept, but it’s not an immutable physical law like that of gravity. And the free market as described by the Scottish moral philosophers rarely exists because it is continually distorted by those who hold great economic powers. It’s not bloated government that brought us to the brink of depression, but a bloated plutocracy of bankers, hedge funds, and other wielders of corporate and economic power who routinely buy members of Congress — and have had the Republican Party in particular pretty much on retainer for most of the last 30 years.

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