https://barelyablog.com/the-myth-that-laissez-faire-is-responsible-for-our-financial-crisis/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://barelyablog.com/the-myth-that-laissez-faire-is-responsible-for-our-financial-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-4914 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:31:01 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=4242#comment-4914 I have personally gone from “private industry” to government and back and sadly found the same unethical whores and hucksters on both sides. Call it HUD or Fannie Mae or Countrywide Financial, it is basically all the same crop of rascals – or Blackwater or Haliburton or Special Operations – again, what is “public” and what is “private” nowadays is almost an illusion. Other than a few outfits like some Silicon Valley startups, Chinese restaurants, and my nephew’s bookstore (real enterprises) – most of today’s big businesses are virtual arms of the government (regrettably the dividing line between public and private gets more blurred with each year we slide into the socialistic/fascistic abyss). There is NO laissez-faire involved – just irresponsible looting prompted by government WITH their “business partners”. Orwell may have predicted the “capitalist/socialist” collusion in the conclusion of Animal Farm: “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs? The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

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