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Personally I think that overregulation pretty much amounts to the same thing as the government jumping in and taking over a business or industry and running it themselves.

I`ve always believed that, if we have the opportunity to succeed at something, the opportunity to fail also has to be there, or else we are simply left with medioctrity across the board, a lack of quality and an abundance of average. Success in business comes from many things; hard work, vision, market demand, etc. When those things change, the business either adjusts and succeeds, or fails. There are no guarantees of anyone succeeding at anything forany amount of time, yet that rule seems to be unacceptable anymore to many people in government, and much of the public probably sees it this way as well.

The government is not a business, is not set up to act like a business. How it thinks that it can literally step in and run businesses is beyond me. It is only a precedent for what else could happen in the future.

Capitolism hasn`t failed. People fail. Businesses fail. Saying that capitolism has failed is just an excuse to set it aside and take a different route of doing things.





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M Hall
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Where society has failed in the past several decades is to clearly define the purpose of government. It seems obvious that government isn`t a business. And yet how many people seem to think that`s the basic function of it all.

Government isn`t there to make a happier life for everyone. Nor is the government responsible for protecting against failure, sadness, upsets, and stupidity. It isn`t government`s responsibility to "engineer" a society.

The only real functions of government are:

• Support a military to protect the nation`s borders
• Maintain a unified monetary system (not financial system)
• Provide for the enforcement of contracts through a legal system.

We get into a really hazy area when it comes to public health and safety. Another is in the management of infrastructure. There are excellent arguments in favor of private management of highways and airports, but that`s a whole other system.

Where it comes to free-market monopolies, we don`t usually have the time for the open market to break monopolies. But neither do we want a government in charge of "anti-trust" laws.

But the bottom line is that a people`s government begins with the people. And that means each, individual person. Each of us has to agree on the overall, high-level function of government. And that`s where we have the two basic points of view today. Neither one compatible with the other.

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