I will be there!

I guess our politicians really need to get on the ball with being magicians so they can conjure shit for people out of thin air.

i think they could! They are good at conjuring things like all the money they are spending that doesnt exist

No, that's easy -- you just have to print it at the Fed. Giving the people of this country all the stuff they whine for any not spending a dime to do it, well, that would take some skill.

Well I agree with you on that! But I dont think people should get everything they want from the government. There are some specific situations where some people may need to lean on the government for support but I think it has gotten out of hand. Just my opinion.

The majority of the money they're spending now is going out in an attempt to help our crap economy, though its not seeming as if its helping too much.

but thats the joy of capitalism... it will hurt but it will fix itself... when you try to control it, it leans into socialism

Um... no. Regulation doesn't "lean into socialism" it leans into "Capitalism that doesn't shoot itself in the foot".

Go talk to all the people who are out of work right now about the "joys of capitalism".

lol... I am one of them. First time I havent worked since I was 14. Now Im working on starting my own business, (takes another hit from the economy), But I also have a history in economics and believe that the government bailouts and "assisting in home loan modifications" didnt really help at all but instead makes us pull that band aid off even slower... doesnt matter how fast you have to take it off, it will still hurt. What i like about capitalism is that it factors in the human element. Our ability of survival and wanting to be a have more and not a have not is what makes this a viable and self maintaining economic structure. This recession/depression hurts. And it will for a while. But it is a correction and recourse that we set up ourselves by living on credit and what we hoped to accumulate in funds tomorrow to get everything we want today. Sometimes we have to take our lumps. Get illegal aliens off govt assistance, make mandatory drug testing for anyone on the welfare system, no more cable in prisons and use that money for hiring trainers at workforce offices. As far as health care goes, I know this isnt the ultimate solution but instead of a govt option plan have more govt assistance to pay for med school and have them pay it back by offering pro bono health care and surgeries for the specialists that used tax money to study it. Then put some restrictions on the insurance companies. Just my thoughts.

sorry to write the book... guess i got carried away

It lets the human element run rampant, which is exactly the problem. All the great things man creates man himself is destined to destroy which is exactly what happens in a wide-open capitalist system like ours. You get corporations out looking for nothing but profit, you get people who can't manage funds given way too much on credit.

I guess you are content to chalk it up as an acceptable loss and just another cost of doing business but I have to disagree. I don't think regulating capitalism would destroy it and I don't think the idea has anything to do with socialism.