why cant liberals understand free markets is what lifted every famous business into existence?

[Inside]

google in the beginning of the internet got most of its revenue from internet scams
Microsoft was stolen
facebook was stolen
warren buffet today if he tried to raise the money he raised in his beginning years would have to have 3 million dollars in accounting and legal fees to be in compliance


free markets is whats works regulated markets fail

[Hello]

"Free markets are the engine to America progress"
Guess who said that? Obama so suck it connie

[Sardius]

Your famous businesses = criminal corporations (according to your own claims).
Get it?

[Hob]

Probably because most conservatives have defended the Republican party which has used free market rhetoric to defend Crony Capitalism. I love the free market. I think the Republicans have been the worst ambassadors for "free market economics" that we could have gotten.

[Yo Guh]

Um... I think you may be misunderstanding the situation. Yes, it is true that free market enterprise is what allowed people to start large businesses that made them extremely wealthy. I don't think anybody is arguing against free markets.

People who RUN those large businesses are just paying themselves too much and are clearly overly self-interested. The banks and Wallstreet NEED to be regulated because they essentially gamble on dividends of YOUR mortgage and I, nor you, even fully understands what that means. And due to that lack of regulation TARP gave them 7 billion and the Federal Reserve gave them another 7.7 TRILLION. What have we seen from that deregulation? Oh, a bunch of lost jobs and foreclosures. Cool.

[Love]

No one wants free markets to be completely unregulated. Im not sure where you get that from.

[Intervalse]

there does have to be a balance. an unregulated free market is the best at producing pure profit, but it doesn't care much about safety, fairness, or standard of living. most people agree that adding some regulation has made america a much better place than it was in the early 1900s, when there were no child labor laws or food standards.

but there does have to be a point where we can stop and say "this is fine. this is enough regulation." a flaw in our political system is that it always demands movement to the left or right, which is not the same thing as constantly trying to improve; on the contrary, it's backtracking, replaying a constant loop, cancelling itself out so there's no room for real reform.