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Regulations are placed upon businesses who have proven over and over again that they cannot regulate themselves.
This must not be confused with a "stacked deck" market, in which lobbyists bribe Congress to pass legislation that shields businesses from actual competition. (Bananas, sugar, energy - well pick a business, and the deck is probably stacked). This is *not* regulation of a free market, and the libertarians must stop confusing the two.
The concept that the free market will provide for everyone's needs is complete bullshit. It is akin to the "law of the jungle," where only the strong survive, and the weak are eaten. Right wingnuts continually preach the free market gospel, as if they are blind to the consequences of having a society based upon such doctrine.
Socialism is about making certain that no human goes without basic needs to sustain life and to ensure individual freedom. I do not understand why right wingnuts are so opposed to living in a world where everyone's basic needs are met.
There are two realities in this country. There is the reality that the right wingnuts claim exists, and then there is the reality of what is *really* going on. It is time for the ostrich to pull its head out of the sand.
We are consuming ourselves. As long as there is no guarantee for each human to have basic needs met, as long as humans have to struggle to eek out a living by taking advantage of another human, the anxiety and fear-based society in which we live will continue to kill us prematurely, and will continue to prevent humanity from evolving.
The argument that socialism is bad, evil, and wrong, in the context of the current climate where executives are walking away with millions of dollars while their companies fail and go bankrupt, is no longer an argument that has any merit whatsoever. We are not buying it anymore.
