tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post7947653429129869373..comments2023-06-21T10:26:47.525-05:00Comments on ("RAM").........Red Alert Moderates: Collectivist CapitalismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-70371608900170705552012-01-17T15:40:59.219-06:002012-01-17T15:40:59.219-06:00It's quite right that I will definitely vote f...It's quite right that I will definitely vote for Romney if he is the choice against Obummer! which appears more and more likely to be the case. And Romney may actually be a good candidate. Flies on the others have been made obvious. But there is a big buzzing fly which seems seems quite invisible to the vetting of any of the candidates, which consists in this: What assurance do we have, or should we require, that foreign, state-run capitalists from non-benign states will not (continue to?) be allowed to launder funds to our politicians and seed money to our venture capitalists? Why is that fly so invisible and so un-addressed?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-332220427027508362012-01-17T15:24:20.920-06:002012-01-17T15:24:20.920-06:00From A.T. --
FRS, re: "Just as the farmer kn...From A.T. --<br />FRS, re: "Just as the farmer knows that he must remove weeds for lettuce to grow; the business executive is closest to the market and knows what will sell in what market."<br /><br /><br />Indeed, this does make sense, but only so long as you assume or deal only with relatively free people in relatively free nations. Not so much when you're asking individual businesses in one nation to compete with state-run capitalists in others, whose states have definite goals about what kinds of markets or societies they want to impose and do not respect Western notions of market legalities. Then, the competition moves from being between individuals to being between states. That is, unless one state doesn't figure it out in time and unilaterally disarms itself in economic terms. What assurance do we have that foreign, state-run capitalists are not laundering funds to our politicians and seed money to our venture capitalists? If we refuse to defend ourselves, won't the "weeds" being removed become the Western economies that fail to innoculate themselves against Chinese-like models of state-run capitalism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com