{"id":1184,"date":"2011-07-23T22:06:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T03:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2011-07-23T22:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T03:06:45","slug":"lets-allow-free-markets-to-fight-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/lets-allow-free-markets-to-fight-greed\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Allow Free Markets to Fight Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53133240@N00\/2207307656\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/files\/2011\/07\/2207307656_b71dc9d2ef_m.jpg\" alt=\"Greed\" width=\"168\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>Greedy, capitalistic corporations. \u00a0 They caused the financial crisis and are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housing-information.org\/articles\/how_greedy_corporations_destroy_the_american_dream\">destroying the American Dream<\/a>. \u00a0 They\u2019re preventing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnwelldir.org\/docs\/editorial\/pharm.htm\">curing of diseases<\/a>. \u00a0They\u2019re endangering our <a href=\"http:\/\/nocoprogressives.com\/is-the-gops-drill-baby-drill-and-drill-know-the-real-threat-to-americas-security\/\">environment and our national security<\/a>.\u00a0They\u2019re even <a title=\"&quot;How Greedy Corporations Are Making American Children Fat&quot;,  Organic Consumers, 3\/23\/2004\" href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/school\/fat032404.cfm\">making our kids fat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or so too many people think, nearly enough for a voting majority that would fulfill de Tocqueville\u2019s prophesy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public\u2019s money.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, to back safely and permanently away from the edge of the  cliff, we need only allow for true capitalism to thrive and to replace  the crony capitalism that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplesworld.org\/the-right-not-to-join-a-union\/\">so many people confuse it with.<\/a> Crony capitalism feeds on greed. \u00a0 True capitalism and truly free markets, defeat it.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/07\/10\/lets-allow-free-markets-to-fight-greed\/\">Forbes Opinions&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greedy, capitalistic corporations. \u00a0 They caused the financial crisis and are destroying the American Dream. \u00a0 They\u2019re preventing the curing of diseases. \u00a0They\u2019re endangering our environment and our national security.\u00a0They\u2019re even making our kids fat. Or so too many people think, nearly enough for a voting majority that would fulfill de Tocqueville\u2019s prophesy: \u201cThe American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}