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Rep. Hank 'Tip Over' Johnson: '€˜Free Market Way of Thinking Doesn't Work'
2016-01-09
[Breitbart] Thursday on the House floor while speaking against the Sunshine For Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) decried the "free market way of thinking."

Johnson said, "There has been a movement over the last 30, 40 years to turn people against the government. This mantra is that government is too big, we don't need any rules to govern human conduct, let everything work itself out and the free market system will make it rain for everybody. Well, we've seen after 30, 40 years of practicing that free market way of thinking, that it doesn't work."

He added "This is what this legislation is about--is gutting the rule-making process. This is one of many attempts--incessant attempts--by my friends on the other side to try and cut government and so that their friends in big business on Wall Street can make it rain for the rest of us. But they don't make it rain for anybody but themselves."
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Then where'd all that wealth come from that you want to rob, Tip?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2016-01-09 11:07  

#6  The third raters do it for free.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-01-09 10:37  

#5  Grom, you think they're as high as second rate?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2016-01-09 10:07  

#4  When your perspective is power and control (and graft), you can't comprehend a 'free market'. The natural environment of a 'free market' is chaos, it's natural selection. By its own environment, there are winners and losers. Things break and something else takes its place or picks up the pieces and it gets rolling again. There is no perfect, there is only better. Central planning and control have demonstrated repeatedly that it is not a better alternative.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-01-09 08:51  

#3  BTW, the company store enthusiastically supports the minimum wage hike, but no longer sells so-called assault weapons.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-01-09 08:36  

#2  Big business loves big GIVERnment. And did Hank notice that GIVERnment has grown exponentially the last 30, 40 years? I think big GIVERnment is winning; not losing.
Posted by: Airandee   2016-01-09 05:23  

#1  Personally, I believe that "Progressivism" is a conspiracy by second raters to grasp social/economic positions that, otherwise, would be totally unattainable for them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-01-09 04:24  

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