Muir is apparently persuaded by Republican pro-market rhetoric that they have, in fact, been busily passing pro free-market legislation for the years he mentions.

Of course, he also bought into the hope and change of Wall Street’s man.

He appears to me to be profoundly intellectually dishonest with himself.

So you’re in favor of free markets? Muir you are a riddle…

Actually N. Korea IS a good example of state control taken to the extreme (Too extreme, you’re right) Somalia, on the other hand is NOT an example of freedom or free markets taken to the extreme… Quite the opposite.

In other words, people who cite North Korea as an example of socialism are probably being too harsh. When muir cites Somalia as an example of a libertarianism, he’s being dumb.

Hoover, in the face of a sharp correction (after an overshoot), *drastically* raised taxes starting with the producers (the “rich”), instituted oppressive import tariffs, bloated the money supply by over 60%, et al. It’s about as “unfree” as you can get. It’s tantamount to setting kindling afire, throwing kerosene on the roaring fire, and then blaming the kindling for being combustible.

The best course of action any of us can take with you is simply to ignore you. You’re the annoying, yipping dog desperately begging for attention and a morsel from the master’s table.

Good governance from Barney Frank and Chris Dodd was working perfectly up “until recently”, right murgoo?

HAHAHAHAH!!!

Hahahahah!!!

Translation: “I, muirgoo, am wildly envious of anyone who has more money than I do.”

Translation; ” I , Mark, love paying taxes to bonus my Lord Llyod BlankF because my religion tells me that he does The Invisible Hand God’s work. And I am a devout inculcated mind-be-numbed zoombie drone sheeple body-snatched brainwashed wanker dork tard retard tool lame poser brown-nose cheerleading faithful follower bitch wannabe ditto head conformist propagandized aggrandized impressionable child like concrete black and white group thinking lemming neocon Fox watching true believer Orwellian-like-character who stands on principles of liberty.”

I think you are full of it. The federal government and/or regulatory bureaucracy expanded greatly under the latter three. You obviously take Republicans at their word when they say they support free markets. I don’t

Any person not blinded by partisanism realizes that what politicians say and what they give us are not the same thing.

You do know that it was under Carter that airfares and trucking wre deregulated.

The federal budget under Reagan expanded as much and more than under any president before him.

And the regulatory budget grew significantly under the Bush.

I guess you aren’t an honest person. Your fraudulent signing of the climate petition is a sign of that.