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You continue to resolve the thread and refute the board's Wall Street Advocate. On purpose or accidentally, Tha Rock is lying like a **** rug. He's obfuscating, hedging, collapsing, and otherwise misleading folks with half truths and lies. He is serving and protecting the collapsed distinctions that...

Wall street bail-outs, auto industry bail outs, corporate welfare, massive tax incentives, lobbyists being paid millions to manipulate legislation, zoning laws manipulated by corporations, manipulating markets, etc, etc, is capitalism. Sink or swim based on merit and competitiveness is a free marke...

how many shares of gm stock does the federal government own? or better yet how much did they own? how much money is borrowed in quantative easing every month to prop up the economy? that is money that you and i are responsible for...and it is handed over to banks and wall street....money you and i o...

They're still privately owned. Whether or not they get help from government doesn't change that....

how are they private if they are publicly traded? now the hard ware store down the road here is private...they can pretty much do what ever they want...can the ceo of general motors empty the till and take the money, close the doors and walk away with all the loot? the guy down at the hard ware stor...

our industry is not privately owned...look at general electric and their fancy curly q light bulbs...and look at the incandescent light bulb industry...our capitalist industry has lobbied for regulation after regulation so that small start ups can not reach the level of success that say ford or gm e...

Wall-Street firms are private....

No, it doesn't. Wall STreet firms are bailed out - have been since Reagan. Private firms are not. I can list a dozen bailed out Wall Street firms. You can list zero bailed out private firms. Which makes you what? What? Say it. "Full of ****" is what the judges were looking for, son....

This post resolves the thread. This is the whole enchilada. Under free enterprise, the greatest possible efficiency is not served - just as in nature. Nature selects for variety and redundancy to ensure survival. A truly free market America would see more cultural and economic variety from state to ...

Capitalism means industry is privately owned. I don't know what the **** you're talking about with this "too big to fail ****". That happens whether industry is privately or publicly owned....