Free Republic

Our mixed economy rests on the effective discarding of the United States Constitution, which placed severe limits on government power and thus stood as a bulwark in defense of an economic system that was almost one of laissez-faire. The Constitutional protections were discarded by a process of pretending that the Constitution could somehow “grow” or “evolve,” which actually meant nothing other than choosing to ignore it. ...The present symbolism depicting the relationship between the government and the citizen is that the head of the government, the President of the United States, has at his disposal, with no objection from anyone,...

Members of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) may be allowed to run private business, according to a draft political report to be submitted to the party's national congress slated for April. "Party members, who engage in running private business without scale restrictions, must typically obey the Party Stature, laws, policies of the state and specific regulations of the CPV Central Committee," says the draft report publicized on major local newspapers Friday. [. . .] The private economic sector contributes some 60 percent of Vietnam's gross domestic product, the agency said.