US Election Discussion

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Sounds like you'd appreciate the Gilded Age.

MrTouchnGo beat me to the punch in this post and I would have not posted so audaciously knowing that he had already made the first reference to Flonnmerica. Sorry for stealing your intellectual thunder. You had that one by a mile.

Guys, I'm going to show you how to properly respond to this post:

You are missing so many fundamentals to your understanding of how marketplaces actually work that even giving a full explanation on why that is so terribly incorrect would do nothing for you until you learned the core workings of it first. If you think -I- think that having a Republican Congress/President automatically make the free market free, you are also mistaken; it has been quite a long time since our market was truly being utilized correctly.

Markets, when working CORRECTLY, are supposed to work like a bipolar person off of their meds, and that is why so many people don't understand them. The REAL key to making money off of the market is not to stop or even hinder the downswings (the recessions and depressions, you know), or to even help/coax the upswings. The real key is to learn the signs of the market, put your money in when you think it is going up, and take it out when it is going down. People WILL go bankrupt from the market if they do it incorrectly, just like people WILL become millionaires and billionaires off of it if they do it correctly. There is some luck involved, but if you diversify properly, there is very little chance of actually destroying your life; the people that do, they used it wrong and deserve to have lost all of their money. We should not be helping people back onto their feet when the market screws them. Leave them where they lie, that's where they belong, they deserve no sympathy and they should have known the risks beforehand. Money isn't just paper to be flung around every which way, you have to think before you use it.

The government should have NOTHING to do with the market.

NOTHING. The market should regulate ITSELF, 100% of everything about the market should be self regulated. The absolute ONLY time the government of any country should step in is in the event that substances illegal in said country are being marketed; in that case, even then, the government should only be allowed to cut off that stock from their country's market, nothing more and nothing less. I know bleeding heart types don't like being told that something when it's at its most efficient will DEFINITELY destroy some people's lives, but that's how it is.

Ok I'm not getting a bunch of pineapples AND people aren't responding. So let me add this in. That is a picture of one of my favorite presidents, if not my favorite president period, Theodore Roosevelt who was known as a trust buster because in a time and place a long time ago when companies were allowed to be run in Flonnmerica, they were abused by the system, especially the railroad system where they were charged extortionist prices and there was no competition period. Because companies decided to band together and rip the living day lights of the common man since there was very little government stopping them. Now that we know that companies can actually put aside their differences to rip off the common man harder, better, faster, stronger we know this is a bad idea to live in a Flonne world.

And that is a picture of Teddy smiling. Because it's supposed to symbolize that paragraph when you look at that picture. Like instantaneously.

And if you don't trust me, here is wikipedia, a site that I have edited many times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt