What evidence has the free market given in the last year?

[Matt W]

I'll counter your question with another question: What evidence has the government given to suggest that they can do anything right? Social security? Bankrupt. Medicaid? Bankrupt. Our education system? In shambles. Just walk into any government office and look at the rash of garbage you have to deal with to get anything done. We can hardly trust them to run the DMV let alone our economy.

The free market system is a natural evolution of human interaction. Just like language it has no single inventor but is rather an extension of human nature. It is not perfect, but functions within the realm of the collective intelligence of the planet whereas the government functions within the realm of the wisdom of a few elected officials with no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

No. I wouldn't put too much faith in government. I'd much rather buy stock in the human aspirations. Taking from group A to satisfy group B will not solve any of our problems. The entrepreneurial spirit upon which the United States of America was founded, however, certainly will.

But, by all means, feel free to suck the teat of the almighty government and beg for handouts. It's increasingly becoming the New American Way.

"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'"
-Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor