Does the free market many people advocate exist in any developed countries?

[Felsen]

Unfortunately no...
For the record i do, in fact, support the free market system but i cant think of a single nation that truly uses it. Most people say that they like free markets ( in the USA ) but at the same time they support the illegalization of certain drugs or the manipulation of prices during emergencies to name a few examples of damaging government intervention. I believe that we should return to a free market and forsake the (badly) planned economy that we now use... i also do not believe that we should try to export the concept. it only works under a true representative democracy... and to my knowledge none now exist.
It seems that democracy and freedom in the market place has a fairly short half life, decaying into planned markets and socialism as people discover they can put laws in place to create unfair advantages for themselves.

however the average person, while their definition of a free market may be a little off, advocates free markets because they truly believe that their lives and the lives of the citizens of countries we export it to will be better under it.

and they may be right about that. just as true democratic systems do not go to war with each other( not in the past 2 hundred years has this happened) for territorial or ideological reasons, it stands to reason that nations with a free market wouldn't go to war for economical reasons ( like the USA's current involvement in the middle east).

And for the record the government should not be taking out loans to foreign nations, except from allies during war, and even then only if domestic loan sources have been exhausted