Despite the massive amount of evidence that the Free Market Fairy has failed us, something even Alan Greenspan acknowledges, two clowns in the Washington Times still cling to the old delusion about the morality of the market place:
That attitude of relying on personal responsibility has been a core value in our country from its very beginning. Over the past 45 years, however, personal responsibility has been increasingly marginalized by more collectivist government policies. And this has been happening within the United States in the face of collectivism failing in every society across all cultures where it has been adopted.
In Europe, collectivist policies have so weakened the moral fabric of once proud peoples that they are more concerned about their narcissistic social benefits than they are willing to make sacrifices necessary to defend themselves against threats to their very existence, such as terrorism.
It is not just that our government is bailing out failed institutions at an unprecedented rate. It is that on almost every major front of reform, individual responsibility and the attendant moral underpinnings of free choice are being subordinated to an increased role of the state, which fosters a collectivist-entitlement mentality.
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