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**GypeFeeshyTes** · 09-17-2011, 09:29 PM

Unfortunately, the U.S. is somewhere between a free market system and a fully controlled system. It's a tug of war which sees the rope pulled to one side or the other every so often. Capitalism being one extreme and socialism being the other. With any luck, the two entities will drop the rope at the same time and go back to doing their own instead of trying to force the other to its own side. After all, freedom is all about choice, but making them, not having them made for you. Greed is a terrible thing in extreme settings, but is it as bad as what they say about "the needs of the many..."?

Greed is impotent when not backed by the power of government. We're all greedy in our own way. We all want a raise. It's when that greed is for what others have, and the government takes it and gives it to you, that it becomes a real problem.

09-17-2011, 09:29 PM	#5
GypeFeeshyTes Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 594 Senior Member	Unfortunately, the U.S. is somewhere between a free market system and a fully controlled system. It's a tug of war which sees the rope pulled to one side or the other every so often. Capitalism being one extreme and socialism being the other. With any luck, the two entities will drop the rope at the same time and go back to doing their own instead of trying to force the other to its own side. After all, freedom is all about choice, but making them, not having them made for you. Greed is a terrible thing in extreme settings, but is it as bad as what they say about "the needs of the many..."? Greed is impotent when not backed by the power of government. We're all greedy in our own way. We all want a raise. It's when that greed is for what others have, and the government takes it and gives it to you, that it becomes a real problem.
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