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The Bailout Bust

Submitted by michael redbourn, Sep 30, 2008 07:50

If America believes in a free market economy and capitalism then Congress was right to deny this bill's passage. The only other country that I know of that committed around 4% of its GDP to bail out private enterprises was Sweden which is about as much an extreme left socialist country as you can get. If the Congress and the Senate agree to this bail-out then the US will no longer be a Capitalist society but a Socialist one. Surely the idea of capitalism (whether right or wrong) is based on the survival of the fittest?! Weak and inefficient companies either go under or get bought out by more efficient ones. Mike

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