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Jon: "Do you think that redirect about this being tyranny and the most socialist administration and the hardest left turn in the history of the country. Do you think that's helpful in terms of talking about the balance that we need to strike between free market and government oversight"

Cantor: I'll give you this, it's hyperbolic, there is hyperbolic rhetoric on both sides.


Jon: "Economic talk seems to also come with, on the right, with another sort of prepackaged social agendas as well, would your fiscal conservatism sell a bit better if it was divorced somewhat, from some of the more overreaching moral governmental regulation that seems to be part of that package."

Cantor: "Depends on who you're selling to."


Cantor: "You talk, malign, ridicule freedom"

Jon: " I don't ridicule freedom, I ridicule the idea that it is a slogan and a platitude, and not a reality, and that government is the only infringement on freedom, corporations can infringe freedom... I want to make it very clear, I'm not ridiculing freedom I am ridiculing the idea of freedom as a slogan, a slogan to be used as a cudgel against anybody who would disagree with an economic policy that they think is allowing too much corporate rapaciousness and not redistributing wealth for the sake of castigating those who are successful, but of not allowing those who can fix a system, because capitalism you cannot deny has a certain collateral damage, can it not? So somebody has to stand of for the working people, the corporations aren't gonna do it, the media certainly isn't going to do it, so government has a role in doing that."

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