Hi Khaled
the unfortunate part, free market capitalism is by far the better of all alternatives, as apposed to socialism or communism. that being said, when a failure happens in a free market, socialist responses, such as government bail out, should not happen.
Foe example when a pharmaceutical company lobbies for the government to intervene on its behalf to stop cheaper drugs to come in from Canada, that is one way socialized medicine. it helps the big corporation while preventing the little guy from obtaining heath care at an affordable price. So much for free market. Oh yeah they will tell you that they are doing that to ensure the quality of your medications.
OR you could do it the way we do it over here. Which is real socialism. We the people collectively own the only pharmaceutical retailing company there is (a state monopoly) and that monopoly ensures that the medicines that are sold are properly tested, of course, and that the prices are kept on a good level since it's status as a state ownd company doesn't require it to sell for profit, just to go round.
I could mention the school system and the healthcare system in general as well, but I think you get the picture.
The main thing about it is that I - being a socialist - say that key things in society, Schooling, Healthcare and such, can NEVER be allowed to be subject to the whims of the free market and the hunger for profit that throughout history has continuously placed the human rights and values in second hand.
We know, as surely as we can know anything, that the free marked is not concerned with human beings. Just money. Thus it cannot be entrusted with the lives of human beings, and since it is only concerned with people as as means in a line of production or as consumers, it cannot be entrusted with the development of human knowledge, which necessarily needs to be as free from profit-influences as possible.
//Chris
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