Posted on 10/19/2009 9:30:40 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Glen, this one is for you!
I want to hear more about the context of the video before making a final judgment, but my sense is that there’s no reason for outrage here.
If the context of his talk is, “What is the reality in our country for business?”, then what he’s saying is completely true. It IS NOT a free market. If you think it is, you’re sipping wall street koolaid.
We live in a country where large corporations go to government for special favors that help them at the expense of competitors. For goodness sakes, was nobody commenting on this thread paying attention last fall? That IS the name of the game... for anybody who wants to “compete” that way. That’s why a thoughtful and moral businessman wants to vastly reduce the size of government - so it doesn’t have the power to grant the special favors.
In the video, though, I didn’t hear Bloom say that he LIKED it this way or agreed with it, just that “he gets it”, meaning “that’s the way it is”.
I understand what you are saying, but is it not a two way street? Sure, big companies go to govt. for handouts, but govt. interferes in the free market process, including giving handouts.
Oh! Come on. Everybody knows this buffoon was taken out of context. He was only kidding.
I think his main function is to manufacture bull sh*t.
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