rebeltarian
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« on: March 30, 2010, 12:46:10 PM » |
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« edited: March 30, 2010, 12:50:50 PM by rebeltarian »
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To say the country has gone "right" or "left" on fiscal/economic issues is too sweeping of a statement. The country has gone laissez-faire on many business interests: less tarriffs and regulations, free trade agreements, tax cuts, etc. But the government has simultaneously moved to control/manage the market to the favor of big business what with corporate welfare/bailouts, rabid printing of money and manipulation of interest rates. The country has also been in the red while congress has been spending it's tail off for the better half of the past 20 years. The paleo-conservatives of the early 20th century would certainly not like the nepotism of Haliburton, nationalization of GM and mandatory purchase of health care.
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