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Bigsky
08 Apr 2014 06:03 pm
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they are basically the same...but not the same. capitalism means you can be too big to fail...free enterprise means you can get to big to succeed. look, our economy is based on wall street, that is basically GAMBLING...our economy is based on gambling....that is capitalism. under free enterprise if ...
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Cannonpointer
08 Apr 2014 06:00 pm
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I said, ****. They have access to billions in anonymous cash. Free enterprisers use their own capital, not anonymous capital. That distinction alone would amount to speciation in the natural world....
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tharock220
08 Apr 2014 05:59 pm
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What???...
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Cannonpointer
08 Apr 2014 05:57 pm
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****. They have access to billions in anonymous cash. Fre enterprisers use their own capital, not anonymous capital. That distinction alone would amount to speciation in the natural world. And if a frog had wings, son, he would not have such big back legs....
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tharock220
08 Apr 2014 05:55 pm
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You can say that all you want, but I'm pretty sure I told you in another thread saying something doesn't make it so. Capitalism and free-market are basically the same thing. You call the financial industry capitalism, but the distinction between it and every other industry in that regard is nil. ...
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Cannonpointer
08 Apr 2014 05:55 pm
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Yes. If you think I am saying free enterprise and capitalism can coexist, you misread my meaning....
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Cannonpointer
08 Apr 2014 05:54 pm
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The step you need to make in your understanding is to grasp that what you are lamenting is not a failure of capitalism but its success. The founders revolted as much against the british east india company - successful capitalism, not yet named - as they did against king george. We need to emulate ...
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Bigsky
08 Apr 2014 05:54 pm
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exactly, and that is capitalism...that is not possible under free enterprise...but the irs isnt possible and neither is the federal reserve under free enterprise.... freedom begats free enterprise....free enterprise begats capitalism and capitalism begats socialism and socialism begats communism......
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Bigsky
08 Apr 2014 05:50 pm
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i dont think so...i do not think you can have a stock market and free enterprise...one is the killer of the other...if you study your history it was rockerfeller and j.p. morgan trying to regulate the other out of business...it was morgan that won the day...and rockerfeller realized the need for gas...
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Neo
08 Apr 2014 05:50 pm
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I am pro capitalist. From what I experienced first hand being involved in the ecig industry we have something else here in America. Its not free market. Its where the big fish control arms of the government that are suppose to be monitoring them. Corportism. In capitialism if you build a better mous...
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