Throughout our lives, it seems that we are constantly yearning for more. We want more happiness, more joy, more love, and ideally a whole lot more sleep. Undoubtably so, this desire has existed from the very beginning. From roaming nomads we sought home and familiarity. From civilization onward, we've desired family and thus independence there-from. We gained communities and deism which gave existence a point and formed government and constitutions to protect our lives and our rights. And still we yearn. Still we desire something. Who knows what the future could hold. Perhaps the desire for utopia isn't so foolish a dream after all.
President Reagan had an idea about how the world should run. He deregulated Big Business. That is, he removed the restrictions put in place that kept companies from cheating. He removed, primarily economic oversight. He said that it was unAmerican that in this capitalist society that such oversight, such restrictions should exist. To him, these concepts flew in the face of that illusive, figmentary idea we like to call freedom. He wanted Big Business to have the freedom to do what it will and believed that in doing so, said companies would check themselves. They would check themselves because it was in their best economic interest to do so. Yet, what he didn't realize is that what was in the best interest of Corporate America could be unknown to Corporate America itself! That Big Business could be akin to a compulsive gambler who as they fall further and further into the hole panic and begin making riskier and riskier bets, thus then subjecting themselves to even more debt ...
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