boy are you so funny! you give a definition of free markets as “which is free of external coercion”. very good! who gave that definition to you? because you didn’t think of that all by yourself.
the very next statement you provided, “most troubled markets are the ones with the least amount of freedom and the most rigging by govt to force outcomes that are politically advantageous…” proves me right! you dumba*s!

lets talk about government coercion in the free market now. its called licensure. the government interferes with the free market by demanding a license or a diploma before you can work. like the diplomas that you need to cut hair.

how about tariffs? strong tariff’s on foreign sources of their commodity product (as do the sugar and ethanol industries) you can read about it here if you can read —> http://internationaltrade.law360.com/registrations/user_registration?article_id=117765&concurrency_check=false

how about what the farmers have done? they got Congress to institute minimum pricing or buy up excess supply (as do many agricultural producers) you can read about it here if you can read —> http://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/weekly-update-august-3-7-2009/

how about what the big business are doing? they go to Congress to seek regulations that favor your particular production and product technologies while hamstringing your competition (as does GE with light bulbs) you can read about it here if you can read —> http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/08/stockpile-incandescent-light-bulbs-now.html

how about the doctor supply? they have run to Congress and have them restrict new competition and sources of supply through licensure. you can read about it here if you can read —> http://mises.org/books/leftright.pdf

that’s just a few of government coercions that interferes with the so called “free market”. you just don’t know what your talking about, robert65. i call you that because your IQ is about 65 or below.

the last example that i gave that you did not read above is from Ludwig von Mises Institute. that what i am politically.

LOL!!! i like arguing with you. it keeps me sharp when i have to argue with some one with brains.

i’m not laughing AT you. i’m laughing WITH you! ROTFLOL!!!!

i wonder what women think of this poll’s declaration that women just ain’t as smart as men.

So, are Republicans smarter than conservatives?

“Only a stupid idiot would believe that free markets are omnipotent and will really improve your life and take care of you.”

No. But they have a hellavu better track record than government, at any level.

EOTIS

May also have a lot to do with the explosion of the population who are clearly educated beyond their native intelligence (e. g. sparkless).

Only a malignant narcissist would believe that there is nothing greater in the universe than himself. God is life. Are you so unaware that you think you created yourself?

AV comes in wearing his dunce cap again. yawn

The results are intuitively obvious (to everyone but the Dem/Libs)

AV: As usual for a Marxist, you have it backwards: markets are created by people. Markets are dependent upon people. Markets are the way free humans behave when they are free of coercion. People enter into mutually beneficial transactions of their own free will, except when govt deprives them of that freedom.

dino, you really are a joke. There’s a reason libs don’t run companies or small businesses…they are generally not overtly intelligent, just like you. People like YOU will always be the guy tossing out the diatribe of token insults plagiarized from some other worthless left wing hack who always wanted to be “somebody”. Keep it up. We laugh AT you, not with you. Silly assclown loser.

A free market is one with freedom of entry and exit, and which is free of external coercion.

It’s almost a shame that democracy has given you an equal voice.

Poor Dino. Actually, by this poll, it might be equal, but more intelligent.

Liberals dominate the world of higher education, the most educated people are liberals and the most educated places are liberal.

All that proves is that an education doesn’t make you smart. Thanks Dino!

Blue,

Not so much with the boomers. They are a generation of defective peter pans who have grown old without ever growing wise.

Anything he would say would prove the poll.

Well i say burn down the schools.

why don’t they have the site where the poll is? are they hiding something?

I would say that would be correct all you have to do is read some of the crap the lefties trolls post here and that would be proof enough that Republicans are more intelligent that dems.

We should remember Mark Twain’s comments about not confusing education with
intelligence.

We’re more in touch with human nature and the results of it being pandered to cynically. The result of disrespect for the reality of mankind is disaster. We know that better than they do. Just from the start, we don’t discount the entirety of western civilization which the modern left does at the outset, without recognition conscious or tacit that eastern civilization has laid out in their own philosophical and psychological works principles that are the same, just stated differently.

Put simply, we are more aware that the more you abuse the people and their visceral desires and needs, such as property, the more you’re increasing their resentment and courting their turning on you.

Only a stupid idiot would believe that God is omnipotent and will really improve your life and take care of you.

Or:

Only a stupid idiot would believe that free markets are omnipotent and will really improve your life and take care of you.

An education without common sense is a dangerous thing!

Only an idiot would want to make themselves dependent on government.

Are they?

Only an idiot would want to make themselves dependent on markets.

Why? What is a free market but a free economic environmemt where I can make free decisions?

Why are you liberals so afraid of having to take care of yourselves? Being independent really is quite liberating.