Originally Posted by
Gooch
Michael Moore is an idiot. And I respect aspects about Ron Paul but he is too blinded by his Austrian beliefs (though there are many aspects of the Hayek/von Mises/Rothbard school that I do agree with). He is a man whose voice is needed in governemnt to diversify our perspectives but he should never hold the Presidency. Free markets have always and will always be influenced and shaped by fiscal policy, by politics, by governments. They have to be because there are so many different people, ideologies, cultural and religious influences that contrast so starkly coordination of what people advocate in terms of pure free market forces in any other form would be near impossible. Free markets in the closest to realizable form could not exist without political cooperation and coordination. Without the latter, we would revert back to the days of imperialism and mercantilism and even more severe nationlistic and protectionist policies, all of which are anti-free market. Post-WWII the open door policy negotiated by the U.S. govt and governemnts of Europe, Japan, and developing and emerging markets opened up our markets, our consumer base to theirs. At that point the U.S. began to convert to a more trade deficit nation (the trade balance itself is poorly understood by politicians and citizens alike). Our consumption allowed those nations to rebuild themselves and prosper, and the continuation of this open door has led to a new world order based on variable shares in the global economy, one in which market driven adjustments only possible by the infrastructure built through political coordination are made to address imbalances, one in which disputes are negotiated via organizations such as the WTO and NATO, disputes that are settled politically rather than militarily. These free markets have brought a pause to the string of wars, wars that now really only involve non-WTO, non-NATO nations versus those within those organizations.
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