After all, we see the Obama Government inserting itself into as many nooks and crannies as it can, when we see the two Democrat Prez front runners equally willing to take that stand of Obama and juice with a 55 gallon drum full of steroid to dragoon the US into deeper and deeper levels of socialism where nothing allowed unless it is planned (yet, they call it “solidarity” in cooperation). Instead of cooperation, it is co-opted coercion. The Left refuses to understand that free markets, on the other hand, are the HEIGHT of cooperation with order coming out of chaos and all decisions are decentralized over billions of transactions. Socialism imposes its will into its people; with free markets, people infuse it with voluntary cooperation. Professor Don Boudreaux has a great post on this:
It’s one thing to conclude that markets are immoral after learning how markets work and what life would be like in their absence. Such a conclusion is intellectually defensible because it would reflect an informed – if, in my view, bizarre – value judgment. But the conclusion that markets are immoral typically reflects – as it surely does in the case of Pope Francis – utter ignorance of the logic and history of markets (and of the logic and history of governments). Markets are deeply moral, for they, compared to all feasible alternatives, –
- are driven by voluntary choices rather than by diktats;
- concentrate the costs and the benefits of each choice as closely as possible on the individual who makes that choice;
- allow for great diversity of choices and life-styles;
