The Shock Doctrine: The evil of “Disaster Capitalism”

[American]

We need some representation over here to support the free markets, I see a bunch of Kucinich people over there already and a few RP supporters.

This is a important front we need to protect to support Ron Paul's message.


There has been no shortage of books chronicling the dystopia that is the Bush Administration. And in this job, I’ve read quite a few of them. None of them have made as powerful an impact as Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. I promise you, it will change how you look at government policy and responses. It also finally sealed forever, for me at least, the coffin of the utter bollocks of Friedman economics. Listen to me carefully, you free market fanatics: FRIEDMAN. POLICIES. DO. NOT. WORK. PERIOD. His version of ‘free market economics’ STIFLES democracy. They create an oligarchy that is the opposite of democracy.

VIDEO CLIP (http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/23951/1/Countdown-Klein-Shock.wmv)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/01/the-shock-doctrine-the-evil-of-disaster-capitalism/

[noxagol]

I cannot stomach more debating with these people. People have been bashed with corporations are evil and exploit people soo much. I just got done with what amounted to a semester of economics with a friend and he still isn't convinced that the free-market is best. He wants government to do things and meddle.

I just can't do it. No debate energy left.

[fsk]

Supporting both corporations and a free market is kind of a contradiction. Corporations receive MASSIVE government subsidies. In a really free market, there's no such thing as a corporation.

[Dustancostine]

Corporations are not part of a truly free market.