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Tangibility of Capitalism, and the nature of Laissez-Faire

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SHAHIN GHAEMMAGHAMI

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Post Number:#46  PostSeptember 25th, 2010, 4:51 pm

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Capitalists need laws.laws can be passed by lawmakers.lawmakers need money. capitalists have the MONEY. so just connect the dots.who is Arnold schwar.... governor of california??? he is 1- A capitalist, 2- A politician so most of American politicians are capitalist with capital "C" George Bush (father and son) Reagan, Dick Chenny, all Kenedy family ( JFK, Robert, Boby) John Kerry the richest senator of America. come on man.

government has nothing to do with true capitalism


this is a joke and it is not funny.

in USA, government = CAPITALISTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT, $1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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Post Number:#47  PostSeptember 26th, 2010, 12:41 pm

SHAHIN GHAEMMAGHAMI wrote:whitetrshsoldier

Capitalists need laws.laws can be passed by lawmakers.lawmakers need money. capitalists have the MONEY. so just connect the dots.who is Arnold schwar.... governor of california??? he is 1- A capitalist, 2- A politician so most of American politicians are capitalist with capital "C" George Bush (father and son) Reagan, Dick Chenny, all Kenedy family ( JFK, Robert, Boby) John Kerry the richest senator of America. come on man.

government has nothing to do with true capitalism


this is a joke and it is not funny.

in USA, government = CAPITALISTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT, $1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000


Shahin,

As I said before, true Capitalism requires the absence of government, as governemnt is merely a coercive entity, and Capitalism is defined as consensual trade between parties.

The more we've involved government in our Capitalistic economy, the worse it has gotten. You have provided the examples.

True Capitalism requires government only to protect each individual from force. Our current State uses the government to apply force against the individual and private individually held companies [in a manner that would, if carried out by an individual, be considered an illegal] in order to manipulate the economy.

It's obviously not faring well.

In response to your reference to the unsustainable budgets of the States, you are even further reinforcing my assertion.

A true Capitalistic society would not have a government that involved itself in financial matters. This means that "local services" would be provided to individuals by individuals, not to individuals by "the State".

If individuals were responsible for handling their own transactions, "Capitalism" could not be "dangerous", as no significant amount of money would be held by a city or State, and any money that was held would have only one purpose for being spent; the equal enforcement of the law.

In a Laissez-Faire Society, no individuals have access to spend public funds at their own discretion. Therefore, we have no issue with embezzlement by publicly-elected Executives, as their interactions with public funds would have near-full transparency and almost no barricades behind which they could hide.
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Post Number:#48  PostSeptember 27th, 2010, 8:34 pm

In capitalism economic force does not count as something people need to be protected from so the masses who become bereft of capital are left to starve in the streets.

Laissez-Faire capitalism was a short and bloody affair in France.
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Post Number:#49  PostSeptember 28th, 2010, 2:45 pm

Unrealist42 wrote:In capitalism economic force does not count as something people need to be protected from so the masses who become bereft of capital are left to starve in the streets.

Laissez-Faire capitalism was a short and bloody affair in France.


Or we could rephrase your statement and more accurately say that:

"In Capitalism, economic force is held as any other natural force; it is considered natural and left to the people to provide for themselves and their own".

Like a house destroyed by a hurricane in New Orleans, it is not society's fault that your house fell down. You can deal with it, or look for assistance from others. But you can't use government to forcefully demand that I be forcefully deprived my money to rebuild your house, solely because you built your home UNDER SEA-LEVEL in a HURRICANE-PRONE AREA, and continue to do so year after year.

If you can't provide a service or product worth trading with another person free of gov'ment force, and nobody else cares about you, then you ought to starve in the streets; as you are then one of Nature's many failed experiments.
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