Argentina: Surviving without money

The free market does not "solve all problems," this coming from a person who probably lives in a country in which corporations have the same identity-rights as real human beings, but are sociopathic, parasitical, in which a company, literally, can force an entire neighborhood to move like refugees so they can set up condos or golf courses--and this is but one of millions of examples of unregulated "free trade."

the state creates these problems. the free market solves them. without money, people still eat, and survive to be interviewed. how? barter, sadly. the black market.

show me where the state regulations are for that.

the government created the problem and the people solved them by their own ingenious methods. a black market? hardly. I find it sad that you find it sad they barter. It's fantastic that the ability to trust still exists, even if that trust is not in the government, but instead in each other.

Further, why when you admit the state created the market problems in the first place would you further suggest they regulate the peoples methods to survive?

The worst thing that I've heard was when someone wrote about our economy: "Think America... Think Argentina."

We should start these co-ops in California, but the government would probably bust us for attempting to do so.

If the crisis was bad before, now the peso, being tied to the US dollar, will be in the tank for a long time. Of all of the bad things that Bush accomplished (after the betrayal of our military by sending them into the shit-hole of Iraq with lies), the betrayal of the dollar may be the worst, The world has lost confidence in US fiscal management.

elrazera:

Well, anybody can say, "You don't understand it." It's the easy part.
How about showing the proof that you know more about it, not by copying and pasting but using your own words?

the REAL unemployment in the U.S. is higher than theirs!

I never saw food at these exchanges. With no money, how do they eat?

How about you show some proof that YOU know anything about it? You seem to be under the impression that your specialness means you get to say whatever you want while others have to bring un-cut-and-pasted proof of knowledge.

In your case, a mere knowledge of the facts of the event is insufficient. You then have to interpret those facts correctly. Given your conclusion that what Argentina needs is MORE government to fix the problem, I'm going to have to suggest that you've failed on phase II.

I said NOTHING about government, and I was asking a sincere question. I meant it.......how do people buy food? The last thing I would suggest, had I actually suggested anything, would be more government.