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  response to  chrissywissy's post What about poverty?

  Re:What about pverty?

  Free trade allows for everyone to profit. Wealth is not a zero sum game. As Trade increases a countries wealth increases. This wealth ends up in the hands of workers. The "poor" may sometimes have a smaller share of the wealth but they are still better off than they were before. Relatively speaking the poor in america have a much higher standard of living than those from poor nations. The poor are also hurt by many government programs that are supposed to help them. One example is rent control. If renters can't make a profit they will stop renting and won't build new housing. Therefore a shortage is created and less people can have affordable housing. Cities with the most rent control tend to have more homeless.

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  Commented on May 27, 2008 by - nsaine

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  response to  Andrew Price's post Meet The Candidates

  Nuts

  Does anyone Understand or care about economics. Social programs do not help anyone. Free markets are what made this country great. Obama talks about change but, he just wants to continue the long tradition of expanding government and social programs. What we really need is true reform. Completely Privatize Schools , Roads, heath care, police etc. Or at least let the states run them if they want them. Get rid of all subsidies and and trade barriers. Let the market decide what is usual to produce or not. We also need to reestablish our property rights. While Ron Paul is in favor of free markets he is somewhat of a conspiracy nut, and also completely out of the race. John Mccain has the best voting record of all candidates on free trade, by far. If you can't vote for mccain then if Bob Barr runs vote for him. Please lets not further expand these socialist agendas. These programs are what give the government and a president power over the economy. Without them they are powerless. We should not put our faith in any president to fix the economy. It is far to complex for any one person to manage. The best way to fix it is to keep the government out of it.

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  Commented on May 13, 2008 by - nsaine