Why are "free market" righties always bailing out corporations and subsidizing farmers?

Question

If they truly believed in a free market, they would let these entities fall prey to market demands.

It is only a free market to them when the US government wants to benefit average Americans through things such as energy bills.

Answer 1

It should amaze me that the very ideologues who condemn "big government" are the first to run to Washington for support when their own interests are at stake, but I figure this only demonstrates the complete amorality of the neoMcCarthyites. The only explanation must be that they do not believe a word of the bilge they are pumping out, and are only using their carefully tailored propaganda to disguise their own agenda.

Marx may have been wrong in a number of ways, but I think he had it right when he said that "the struggle between classes is a political struggle." When the middle men talk about how bad government handouts are while pocketing their own it is simply a fight over market share. The righteous indignation and garish patriotism are so much advertising.

It is hard to accept that degree of cynicism can exist, but look at the way they have pursued every opponent for moral failings they possess themselves. What could be more opportunistic than a Senate Committee with pedophile DeLay and closet queen Craig pursuing Bill Clinton for adultery? What was disguised as a moral crusade was actually a blatant attempt at a coup d'etat.

The Canadian statesman Thomas Clement Douglas once said that when businessmen took political positions he always looked for where the money was. Did the attack on the Clintons begin in earnest when they came out for a national health care system? Has all this been funded by HMOs and Big Pharmacy because such a proposal would affect the trillions in profits they make by not providing health care? Once again, it seems to be a struggle for market share at the expense of the public good.

Tommy Douglas, by the way, was recently voted the greatest Canadian ever in a national poll conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His single greatest accomplishment was the establishment of the national health program. I guess that time has proven him right, even though he was decidedly left.

Answer 2

You make a great point. I don't think TRUE conservatives think like this, though. Both the Republican AND Democratic parties have been taken over via people with ulterior motives...this is exactly the reason I am no longer a Democrat and owe ZERO loyalty to either of the parties at all. IMO, a TRUE American Patriot thinks with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and what is best for America, NOT THE REST OF THE WORLD. Most Americans no longer think like this and would just rather watch TV and the only news that they get is from the media... How many of them actually have READ the "Patriot" act or any of the recent bills coming out of Congress? It takes time, but protecting your rights do. To answer the question which you asked, you are right. Socialism is exactly that. The New World Order that Bush Sr. has talked about is in the process of happening and this is the result. Businesses that they want around will succeed, and ones that the elite don't care about will not succeed. The poor get poorer and the rich get richer...trickle down theory is just BS.

Answer 3

Free market is only important to the right when people don't have food,shelter or health care.Then it is absolutely unwanted to help them out through solidarity because that would go against the Holy rules of the free market and the economic laws.

For me a good economy means nothing if the people don't benefit and a lot of them suffer. And the whole free market is a myth anyway.Don't get me wrong a free market is good but it's still always man made and those in power make choices.You can have capitalism and still have social corrections so people don't die in the streets just like you can have capitalism and give big companies on top of their obscene profits extra subsidies.
The right for some reason only sees the latter as capitalism and the first as socialism.Would be funny if it wasn't so sad

Answer 4

Free market capitalism is a lie.

"When a government's leaders routinely seek out private-sector individuals or businesses and, in exchange for political support, bestow favors on them, the society is said to be in the grip of 'crony capitalism.'" Alan Greenspan

Greenspan and the Myth of the true believer http://www.naomiklein.org/main

Answer 5

Kind of like when the government was giving the airlines hundreds of millions when Americans weren't flying after 9/11!What sense did that make paying to fly almost empty planes?

Answer 6

I'm a "free market righty" and I am totally against subsidies and bailing out companies.

I think it's the crying Democrats who insist the government help these companies and farmers.

Answer 7

Stock market.

Answer 8

Because they bow down before the corporation in a manner of which conservative christians did before God in this nation 100 years ago.

Answer 9

You wont find real conservatives pushing those bail outs.

Answer 10

Ironic isn't it.? also, many of those farms that are being subsidized are large corporate farms. Sounds like corporate welfare to me. Of course, to those on the right, corporate welfare is acceptable.