[FrankR]

NO, the governments moral obligation is to get the hell out of the way, quit regulating and taxing our jobs offshore, and let the private sector run the markets and the economy. Then there would be plenty of jobs and unemployment would be an emergency stopgap program and a lot less would be would be needed.

The Government's "moral obligation" is infrastructure and security...you be nice and we'll loan you the money to take care of those two things...personally, I think the states can do it better.

[Ouderkirk]

The whole point of what the liberals want to do it to take the normal ebb and flow of the economy and smooth it into a slow line of growth, which is not the normal for any economy. THere are always periods of high growth, followed by a recession followed by more growth, and another recession....etc.

Sure, it would be nice to have a slower constant line of growth, but this required massive intrusions into the economy by people who then choose winners and losers. Any 99 times out of 100 they choose wrong.

The ebb and flow is the market sorting out those companies, and products which are not strong enough to survive in the long term. This is natural and good.