Should The Government Cut Back On Welfare Benefits or

[spacemonkey]

Capitalism is just as screwed as all the other ism's are in the long run, after adding greed and corruption and the impact of a finite market. America is a wealthy nation, but by no means a bottomless pit of guaranteed opportunity for all who can get here, legal or otherwise.

[lnrw]

What exists in America, is not capitalism. It's crapitalism. And it's pretty much the same or worse everywhere else.

[Kane]

Mixed market economies will never get along with Libertarians.

So say we all.

[lnrw]

Market mother nature wins every time.

[Kane]

The human variable in markets makes that fact irrefutable and your statement thus irreverent.

What's your point?

[lnrw]

[Kane]

Economic policies or theories? Because the proposition that scarcity existing within the labor market isn't necessarily a necessity confounds modern economic thought.

[lnrw]

on the 1st point, theories drive policies.

on the 2nd, like jobs that go begging with many qualified unemployed? or something else?

[Spider]

[lnrw]

Well, you tried to describe capitalism by describing an intrinsic flaw of socialism.

You still haven't been convincing that unemployment is required by capitalism.

Perhaps you can answer Dave's question.