[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=XBoxBoy]Sorry to come to this debate a bit late… but might I offer the suggestion that yeah big govt. vs boo big govt is about as meaningless at dem vs rep. or liberal vs conservative.

Seems to me that whether govt control of things is better than corporate control of things hinges on which offers less corruption, fraud and misallocation of resources. In the end it doesn’t matter whether it’s govt sponsored corruption or corporate sponsored corruption, it’s how wisely the resources are applied to improve our lot.

Given the recent history of govt and corporate collusion, I think this whole debate is a side show. The debate shouldn’t be yeah govt. or yeah corporations/free market, it should be how the heck do we control corruption, fraud, theft, and misallocation of resources?

XBoxBoy[/quote]

Except its always been about the money. Whether we’re talking about the first draft of the Constitution reading, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property”, to the fact that none of the signers of same were tradesmen, shopkeepers or blacksmiths, through the Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny and Gunboat Diplomacy, to GM using the FBI to put various competitors out of business, its always been about the money and it always will be.[/quote]

Bingo, Allan! There is no statement more true than your last. And when that is the case, economic systems, well laid out as they are on paper, sometimes stumble over human foibles.