Where "free" means "being able to pay 10 cents a day to have widgets made and not bother with anything related to safety precautions".

Mitt Romney: "Our economy is like a dog on top of a station wagon, trapped in a kennel, and has shat itself. America needs a leader with the courage to pull this farking country over and hose off the dogshiat before continuing on in the exact same manner that caused the mess."

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to do a leveraged recapitalization on.

To be fair, our economy has been an assisted market for some time now. We have indeed been tampering with the free market. The problem has been that the assisted market that we have has been benefiting larger entities, to the detriment of the smaller entities. We have been transferring wealth at an unprecedented rate and bypassing the normal market forces, with direct payments to those entities. It sort of screws things up, except for the banks, and the folks who are stockholders. It bypasses the normal market process, and you can only screw up the markets for so long, without adverse repercussions.

BTW: the housing collapse and all that mess with derivatives IS a repercussion.

Ed Finnerty: Mitt Romney: "Our economy is like a dog on top of a station wagon, trapped in a kennel, and has shat itself. America needs a leader with the courage to pull this farking country over and hose off the dogshiat before continuing on in the exact same manner that caused the mess."

Thats emotion-free crisis management you can count on, America.

We're not free until companies are free to fire every one of us for absolutely no reason and then get the bank to foreclose on our houses because we might not be able to make payments in the future.

That's real freedom. Republican Freedom. American Freedom.

It doesn't even bother me that Romney is a lying sack of shiat... it's just that he so farking BAD at it.

I want to play poker with him.

GAT_00: We're not free until companies are free to fire every one of us for absolutely no reason and then get the bank to foreclose on our houses because we might not be able to make payments in the future.

That's real freedom. Republican Freedom. American Freedom.

But the important thing is that little clumps of human inside a mommy are protected!

MyRandomName: Thought fark libs were boycotting politifact for daring to ever say a liberal lies.

???

As opposed to what other kind of libs? What's the difference, other than Fark membership?

DamnYankees: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to do a leveraged recapitalization on biblical law

FTFM

Banking and large corporations have ensured there was no such thing as a free economy since long before the Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Act.

o5iiawah: If only companies could prosper with zero employees. Let me know when you figure that one out.

American employees, specifically? Oh, they're prospering just fine without them.

Mrtraveler01: Once again...another fine example of conservative humor.

It's like a Fark 1/2 News Hour.

Dammit... Fark 1/2 Hour News Hour

o5iiawah: I should probably quote Farrakhan or Alinsky the next time I discuss mainstream democratic ideology

Weren't you the guy arguing for gold specie in a recent North American Union thread? I just remember being quite impressed that you seemed to be mired in 1845 or something. Whatever they were, you've got hoots-pa talking like your positions are mainstream.

I'll go see if I can dig up some quotes.

We should just let companies do whatever they want because anything else would be socialism. No company would ever put everyone in whole farking towns in danger because of profit right?