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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 595643" data-attributes="member: 2189">Great vid. AV&nbsp;Thanks for posting. &nbsp;I&#039;d like to see more discussion on the market interventions of the 1930&#039;s and 1940&#039;s that over time caused market distortions and helped to get us where we are now. Just as gov&#039;t was intervening in the domestic economic market to achieve an outcome or means to an end, it found that it also had to do so globally as especially becaue of Bretton Woods and then in 1971&#039; when Nixon ended Bretton Woods and OPEC made the dollar in effect the global reserve currency backed by oil itself. Oil replaced gold as the backing commodity of the dollar. Intervention was thus demanded on the global stage in order to maintain economic stability so the US government because an agency of intervention on both the domestic and international front in order to achieve a specific economic outcome. Healthcare is a part of that bigger picture IMO.&nbsp;I also like the idea of non profit co-ops which are not anti free market if voluntary. All things should be voluntary. And this idea also promotes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localism_(politics)" target="_blank">localism</a> and decentralized control. You can choose to take all so-called profits and roll it back into the organization for the benefit of it&#039;s members, nothing in the rules of free market economics sez you have to take profits and pay to shareholders. You can even make an arguement that the Wall Street system we have today is not a true free market in that any of us can&#039;t open up a stock trading exchange and start doing business. What would the various gov&#039;t agencies who oversee such things have to say? And are they in fact not really there to protect investors and the public as much as they are there to protect a private monopoly and cartel?&nbsp;If non-profit by voluntary choice is not the free market, then one might need to explain how so many non-profit charities will provide a fail safe system where extracting gov&#039;t from that picture and purpose are advocated?&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fff.org/comment/com0909a.asp" target="_blank">Strike the Root!</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 595643, member: 2189"] Great vid. AV Thanks for posting. I'd like to see more discussion on the market interventions of the 1930's and 1940's that over time caused market distortions and helped to get us where we are now. Just as gov't was intervening in the domestic economic market to achieve an outcome or means to an end, it found that it also had to do so globally as especially becaue of Bretton Woods and then in 1971' when Nixon ended Bretton Woods and OPEC made the dollar in effect the global reserve currency backed by oil itself. Oil replaced gold as the backing commodity of the dollar. Intervention was thus demanded on the global stage in order to maintain economic stability so the US government because an agency of intervention on both the domestic and international front in order to achieve a specific economic outcome. Healthcare is a part of that bigger picture IMO. I also like the idea of non profit co-ops which are not anti free market if voluntary. All things should be voluntary. And this idea also promotes [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localism_(politics)"][COLOR=red]localism[/COLOR][/URL] and decentralized control. You can choose to take all so-called profits and roll it back into the organization for the benefit of it's members, nothing in the rules of free market economics sez you have to take profits and pay to shareholders. You can even make an arguement that the Wall Street system we have today is not a true free market in that any of us can't open up a stock trading exchange and start doing business. What would the various gov't agencies who oversee such things have to say? And are they in fact not really there to protect investors and the public as much as they are there to protect a private monopoly and cartel? If non-profit by voluntary choice is not the free market, then one might need to explain how so many non-profit charities will provide a fail safe system where extracting gov't from that picture and purpose are advocated? [URL="http://www.fff.org/comment/com0909a.asp"][COLOR=red]Strike the Root![/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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