9 Apr 2014 12:58 am
Cannonpointer » 06 Apr 2014 11:09 pm » wrote:Again and again on this board, I have pointed out that capitalism - not "crony" capitalism, not red or green or blue capitalism, but CAPITALISM - lives by the government gun. From soup to nuts, from inception to forever, all Wall Street firms count on the government to socialize risks, privatize profits, and bully cornered markets.
Of late, RJ Reynolds and other of Lush Rimjob's friends have been getting walloped by FREE ENTERPRISE. But capitalism doesn't take that laying down - they use their exclusive control on the mainstream media to tell lies upon lies about their competition, and they go to their bought-and-paid-for government goons to use the nanny state to protect their market.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/fda-pushing ... ids-274796
The canard about 215 calls to the CDC regarding vaping fluid is being repeated all over the corporate media. All 215 calls traced back to RJ Reynolds. And I can prove that - or at least, you should assume that I can, rather than assume the number is accurate, representative and honest, given the billions at stake for big tobacco.
Nicotine is in cigarettes. and these e-cigarettes have it as well. So which is worse????
You just rant and rave about capitalism and you obviously do not understand what real capitalism is. Your view is of a perverted kind of capitalism that does not exist. Capitalists want nothing to do with the Government because the Federal Government creates a lot of regulations that make it very hard to do their work. As time has gone on the regulations strangle small business from even trying to start. Currently the regulations for all business take up a 3ft by 3ft by 4 ft with a 2 ft pyramid on top. The Fderal Government cranks out a 1/2 inch to 1 inch of regulations a month. If anybody breaks these regulations they can be put in jail. Only the big corporations can have a set of lawyers to keep them from breaking the regulations.
In a capitalist system that is not over regulated each company offers goods and services to the public. Competition between very similar products or services makes sure the companies will keep their prices low enough to make just enough money to have a decent profit. The competition also makes each company provide good products or services or people will go to the better product or service. Thus competition keeps the products, services and cost in balance. The problem only comes when a company has a monopoly of get together with the other companies and make a higher price for the product or service. AKA trusts. That is why originally monopolies were regulated and trusts made criminal. The problem today is the bureocracy is only interested in makeing more and more regulations because that is what they think their job is. The Democrats love to pass laws so that the bureaucrats can make more and more regulations. Thus killing small businesses and jobs. Of course the two laws of Obama care and Frank Dobbs is making small business keep below 50 employees and any more employees are working 29 hours or less doe to those two laws.