The Degrowth movement

[Lonestar_logic]

You have not even shown that over regulations exist.

We are talking about degrowth and you are on a rant about wanting no regulations.

Dude, you obviously don't know what a rant is nor do you understand your own argument.

http://www.economist.com/node/21547789

Over-regulated America

Consider the Dodd-Frank law of 2010. Its aim was noble: to prevent another financial crisis. Its strategy was sensible, too: improve transparency, stop banks from taking excessive risks, prevent abusive financial practices and end “too big to fail” by authorising regulators to seize any big, tottering financial firm and wind it down. This newspaper supported these goals at the time, and we still do. But Dodd-Frank is far too complex, and becoming more so. At 848 pages, it is 23 times longer than Glass-Steagall, the reform that followed the Wall Street crash of 1929. Worse, every other page demands that regulators fill in further detail. Some of these clarifications are hundreds of pages long. Just one bit, the “Volcker rule”, which aims to curb risky proprietary trading by banks, includes 383 questions that break down into 1,420 subquestions.

No one here is saying we want "no" regulations so stop with your lying.

 

[Votto]

And you support unregulated capitalism.

And the marxists, you clown, had the worst climates. Go google East Germany.

And you support big government with tons of regulations that strangle small businesses. Go Google Jake's a lying moron.

That you would confused Joe's Bakery with Hershey Chocolate and the comparative damage done by the two, that google with show you are the moron.

Jake, do you agree with the following?

"climate activist Naomi Klein proclaimed that "Capitalism increasingly is a discredited system because it is seen as a system that venerates greed above all else. There is a benefit to climate discussion to name a system that lots of people already have problems with for other reasons. I don't know why it is important to save capitalism. It is a pretty battered brand. Just focusing on climate is getting us nowhere. Many, many more people recognize the need to change our economy. If climate can be our lens to catalyze this economic transformation that so many people need for other even more pressing reasons then that may be a winning combination. This economic system is failing the vast majority of people. Capitalism is also waging war on the planet's life support system."

So you are for unregulated capitalism is what is obvious.

The person in question is not saying that capitalsm needs to be regulated, they are saying it needs to be replaced.

And what exactly does regulated capitalism look like? For example, would you say that communism is nothing more than heavily regulated capitalsm?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Lonestar's disease in the heart of the latest link is "America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire."

What a silly statement is that. We have not been non-regulated since Wilson's era. That's 100 years or more. The first federal regulation was before 1900.

Votto uses silly definitions. Stop the libertarian nonsense; it is the nonsense on the flip side of the coin of communism.

 

[TNHarley]

No, you are simply making an argument that does not exist.

Good people have always realized that the two great scourges of the last two centuries have been unregulated capitalism and communism.

How has communism? Can you name someone that actually practiced it?

 

[Votto]

Lonestar's disease in the heart of the latest link is "America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire."

What a silly statement is that. We have not been non-regulated since Wilson's era. That's 100 years or more. The first federal regulation was before 1900.

Votto uses silly definitions. Stop the libertarian nonsense; it is the nonsense on the flip side of the coin of communism.

America drifts farther from a free market everyday. At what poin does the notion of a free market die?

Keep in mind, those cited in the OP stated that a free market is failing more and more, while at the same time we drift farther and farther from a free economy. One could easily correlate a loss of economic freedom to the increased failings of a free market. Instead, any trace of free trade is blamed for the failings of the economy.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Lonestar's disease in the heart of the latest link is "America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire."

What a silly statement is that. We have not been non-regulated since Wilson's era. That's 100 years or more. The first federal regulation was before 1900.

Votto uses silly definitions. Stop the libertarian nonsense; it is the nonsense on the flip side of the coin of communism.

America drifts farther from a free market everyday. At what poin does the notion of a free market die?

Keep in mind, those cited in the OP stated that a free market is failing more and more, while at the same time we drift farther and farther from a free economy. One could easily correlate a loss of economic freedom to the increased failings of a free market. Instead, any trace of free trade is blamed for the failings of the economy.

Now your comment is indeed neo-corporatist babble.