The OP finds it difficult to articulate his arguments, such as they are, so he posts links instead. It's obvious he lacks any background in economics.
Our economy is cyclical. Always has been, always will be. Every time the capitalist engine sputters, you will see idiots leap out and claim it's time to pursue an alternative socialist agenda! I don't have a problem with intelligent critics of capitalism who understand its inner workings and seek to curtail its excesses and correct its flaws - Keynes was one of them. I do have a problem with socialist-dirigiste assholes who hide in the bushes while the economy is steaming ahead and bide their time until the next recession, when they suddenly jump out and scream "ah ha, gotcha! - this proves capitalism doesn't work!" instead of explaining it is part of the normal cyclical dynamic by which a free economy pauses and rebalances itself, before surging ahead to ever-higher levels of wealth and output.
Who will be the next far-left opportunist asshole to follow in Rahm Emmanuel's footsteps when the economy experiences another temporary downturn?
"You never want a crisis to go to waste!"
I miss Milton Friedman! He could write and speak dense, quantitative economics with the best of his peers, then turn around and explain everything to the layman in simple, understandable terms. Even someone as clueless as Phil Donahue!
That video is now 40 years old. It pains and frustrates me that we have to keep replaying it over and over again. Socialists are like cockroaches. You can flush them down the toilet and they will swim back up.
As I said, I'm bored with hearing the same nonsense from the left. I'm tired of debunking idiots like Bernie Sanders who don't understand - and never had any desire to understand - simple economics and the historical, empirically proven lessons of Wealth Creation 101.
