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and the deep state relishes in the power this provides.

"Trump wins and nobody is brought to justice."
D.C. NIFO

One of my favorite American capitalists is Henry Ford. Have you ever read his autobiography "Henry Ford; My Life and Work", about four or five volumes. He didn't like to borrow money from the financiers (remember his quarrels with the Jewish financiers?) because he said they are only interested in making money, not good products. He would once in a while, but only if he could keep control of the funds and their use.

But not all capitalists are like Ford. I know. I had a career as stated.

Did the water ever reach Arizona and California?

The point of my allusion to the Dam was not whether it was made correctly, but was it a disinterested use of water from the Colorado Rockies?

You have to study American business. Some two hundred and fifty years of it. It is not the ideal competition takes care of things that you want to believe it is.

I knew I would be having this conversation with you!

Property and Casualty Insurance is a regulator, of sorts, that replaces harsh and destructive government regulations. But competition can be destructive, I refer to it as pathologic competition, and the early '80's showed this to be so. There are some industries that must have some kind of regulation, for instance, transportation.

But as I've said previously, any Leftist thinking must be totally eliminated before overhauling anything.

Good one! JustUS has replaced true justice.

Harris tells lies, and Trump makes fries. It was a brilliant move on his part.

I was in northern Italy (Verona) when Covid hit there, late February/early March 2020. Everything except grocery stores closed, hardly anyone outside, if they were outside, they had to be masked and keep one meter apart (not 6 feet like USA). The city was silent except occasional ambulance sirens. We literally caught the last flight out, to Munich, before the airport closed. It was total overkill. But the point was proven. The populace can be totally controlled, like sheep.

Yes, if only we knew who the kings are ............

Absolutely! And it was done under time and under budget.

The statement "follow the money" very often explains everything.

We dropped off our ballots at a collection box here in Colorado last Friday. Voted for Trump. Got a message that the votes had been received, and would be processed and counted on Monday. It is now Wednesday, still no confirmation that our votes have been processed. Sent that info to a congressman we know who has direct personal communication with Trump's son. Could the Demonrats possibly be even worried Trump could take strongly Democratic Colorado? I absolutely do not trust the election process in Colorado. It is mail in ballots for everyone, with option to go to a polling booth on election day if mail in ballot is not used. Maybe I should have waited?

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Yes, when free market competition is allowed it does take time to sort out the most effective way forward. (I remember that oil field photo, too.;^)
It's rare that complex things work perfectly the first time, but the free market is the most efficient path. Government force is not.

Yes, I believe that competition is a good stimulus for the production of quality 'at good prices'. But for risk-takers, competition itself can be taken to extremes. And as the European-American psyche is primarily one of risk-taking, we see extremism emerge over time.

And government has no competition. I see your point. In the past, however, and as our founders desired, the holders of private property were in essence a counter-balance to government monopoly of...everything. The Left has been busily engaged in preventing the role of private property in balancing power.

My answer was that the state govs only have to arrange for right of ways and let the free market build the roads.
No public funding is required or wanted. Since the point of free market construction is to enhance profits they
are careful to construct things that do so, including making sure that the rights of way are continuous.
Otherwise the construction doesn't fulfill the goal.
If a state government doesn't participate by acquiring the rights of way, they lose out to other states
and their economies and employment loses as well. They also lose at the polls when the private entities
expose the fact that the state gov has not acted in the interests of their people.
Free markets work. Governments waste, corrupt, lie, and enslave.

Power and control, exactly. And Leftist demagoguery is the best way to obtain control in a democracy. And once that happens...

Let's go to the Soviet Union to see what happens when communism takes over. Granted, Stalin, being the paranoid unstable personality that he was, PERHAPS is not representative. (But could a less paranoid and unstable personality have reached his office?) At any rate, what I see happening is that the officials in the Politburo were selected for psychopathy. Not intentionally; but that is what will happen. In fact, I think Stalin is said to have spoken of them as "The better slayer".

I would conclude that internationally as well as nationally, competition of that sort results always in psychopathic bureaucrats, and worse.

Election officials are trying to say it was operator error that caused the vote for the wrong candidate:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/...

I'm not buying it.

Then there's this:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vide...

The next few weeks will be very interesting.

Anymore, though, the government has intruded into every part of our life that used to be sacrosanct. Our healthcare is only one instance. Our diet, our transportation, our fishing and hunting, just about everything.

freedom, I was once a large commercial property and casualty underwriter. Things don't always go along properly and sedately when business is left to itself. It isn't about greed, though. It is more about the pleasures of risk-taking, the pleasures of competition, and the sometimes forgetfulness of producing a good product at a good price.

There is a great photo I came across, and I believe it was in an early history of the oil industry in Pennsylvania, of how suddenly oil wells sprang up all over a certain area. Now if you know anything about oil fields, with the number of wells on that particular region, no one was getting oil.

Your attention to individual quality producing on the part of ALL producers is gratifying; but in real life that isn't always the situation.

I agree.

A good example of when a disinterested third party is needed is how the water in the Colorado River, as it flowed south to its entrance into I believe, the Gulf of California, was fought over by various states and entities. The Hoover Dam. Was that a correct use of federal authority?

I'm not sure if you and I have the same understanding of oversight. I mean oversight in the sense of each state, with its own funds, building its part of the highway, but some disinterested third party needs to make sure the various ends 'meet' at the various borders.

Now that's just a mildly outlandish example of things that could go wrong...

Competition is the savior of the people. The whole idea of an ever expanding federal monopoly is a terrible one. Let the cities and states do what they think is best.