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I think I may be taking the current political situation too seriously, but when I start getting left-wing propaganda from ConsumerReports.org, I just can't let that go without some type of a response. I will leave it to you to decide if I need to take a breather.

I received this unsolicitied email from what appears to be the Consumer Reports PAC. ( must lead a sheltered life, but I had no idea that they had a PAC. I also can't fathom why they would need one--other than maybe to secure their income stream.)

So, after fuming about it for a while, I decided to respond:

Mr Guest,
 
I am sorry, but you must mistake me for a idiot. Either that or you are the idiot. Corporatism and government interference in the free market has 'devalued personal responsibility, fair play and thrift.' For profit companies in competitive industries have and will always use every possible mechanism to achieve their goal: profit.
 
Only government--big government--has the ability to give preference to favored companies. Only government has the power to make the playing field un-level, and thus short circuit the only true referee of participants in every market: competition. I find it difficult to blame the companies for exploiting government when they can. Your mistake is that you think giving government more power, making it bigger, more dangerous and more easily exploited, will somehow fix it! I cannot believe that someone could reach your position and not realize corruption originates in government, not the other way around.

Do you really think that government bureaucrats are more intelligent and more capable than the best in private industry? If so, you have not been around many bureacrats.
 
Do you think that government is the ruler of private industry? No! Competition is: Why do you think businessmen take advantage of every opportunity to enlist (read lobby or bribe) government's assistance in limiting competition?
 
Do you think that the government-created cartel in rating agencies--Moody's, S&P, and Fitch--had anything to do with the horribly inaccurate ratings that were given to the CDO, MBS, etc? I think it is easy to see: no competition means no quality.
 
How about the Federal Reserve which created the bubble to begin with?
 
How about Fannie, Freddie, et al. Which created the market in mortgages? Before that, most mortgage lenders & bankers (banks, S&L's, etc.) held the mortgages they funded to maturity. With the government created mortgage market, now brokers simply had to sell them. No risk.
 
So how about you do some research before spouting garbage--especially in spam.

Sincerely,

PS: Please cancel my online membership. Take me off any of your mailing or contacts lists. I don't do business with organizations who would make a socialist/fascist/progressive like you their President.

So, was I too hard on him?