"In the Obama era, big business seems to prefer sure profits guaranteed by government to the risks of competition." http://m.weeklystandard.com/articles/crony-capital_794962.html …
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@ryangrim is it your understanding that slavery and feudalism are capitalist systems? -
@conncarroll not feudalism, but yes the US was capitalist in the 1800s and had slavery. So name one century the free market alone made food -
@ryangrim I would argue slavery was crony capitalist and the market was MUCH freezer without it. -
@conncarroll right! So when is your mythical period of a free market creating food on its own? Ag subsidies came shortly after slavery ended -
@ryangrim false. New Deal was decades after slavery. -
@conncarroll but not close to a century. So wanna revise your claim? -
@conncarroll I'll revise for you: We grew food for a few decades without ag subsidies (but did have Jim Crow) -
@ryangrim are you ignorant? When did slaves grow food in PA, NY, OH, VT, etc? - 7 more replies
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