Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:40 PM

Dustlawyer (10,460 posts)

I thought we are supposed to let the "Free Market" decide!

Conservatives are always throwing that out, "Let the Free Market decide..." Let's take them at their word, I say do not bail out any of these companies, they should have kept reserves for a rainy day and not taken so many risks. To always bail them out like we did the Wall Street banks in 2008, just reinforces their careless behavior. Someone would buy up the assets of the bankrupt airlines and start a new airline. Let the current ones fail. They all just received a huge tax cut and now they need help? F'them!

They want a socialist bail out, for real? What nerve!

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I thought we are supposed to let the "Free Market" decide! (Original post)	Dustlawyer	Mar 2020	OP
And any help will make them	treestar	Mar 2020	#1
You didn't know? It's only socialism if it's going to people. n/t	Claustrum	Mar 2020	#2
"Let the free market decide"	mindem	Mar 2020	#3
"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."	sop	Mar 2020	#4
Truth!	love_katz	Mar 2020	#6
Everybody is a socialist in these times...	Wounded Bear	Mar 2020	#5
Fascist Capitalism,...	magicarpet	Mar 2020	#7

Response to Dustlawyer (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:42 PM

treestar (82,106 posts)

1. And any help will make them

Dependent on government! That is one they always trot out. With no evidence.

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Response to Dustlawyer (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:43 PM

Claustrum (4,791 posts)

2. You didn't know? It's only socialism if it's going to people. n/t

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Response to Dustlawyer (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:46 PM

mindem (1,580 posts)

3. "Let the free market decide"

along with "government shouldn't be picking winners and losers". If a business is too big to fail, it's too big.

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Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:46 PM

sop (8,927 posts)

4. "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."

Martin Luther King

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Response to sop (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:50 PM

love_katz (2,474 posts)

6. Truth!

Exactly.

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Response to Dustlawyer (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:48 PM

Wounded Bear (57,185 posts)

5. Everybody is a socialist in these times...

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Thu Mar 19, 2020, 02:05 PM

magicarpet (13,431 posts)

7. Fascist Capitalism,...

Privatize Profits,.. executives, stockholders but not workers. And categorically refuse to pay any taxes.

Socialize Losses,.. taxpayer funded government bailout/welfare to corporations to the tune of billions of dollars.

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