Conservative party leader David Cameron's ideas on rebounding from economic crisis

myp said:

My point was not with the year and I chose 15 solely because the worry has grown exponentially recently. What I am trying to say with this is, the information was certainly out there- it is still out there and people can make their own decisions on how to react. The government is not needed and in fact, it is a sort of bully when it does react. I think we can both agree that most people know McDonald's food such as the burgers, fries, and nuggets are bad for them. Yet, they still decide to eat them. If these people are willing to do this, knowing that the food is bad for them, then why should the government meddle?

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I think we are arguing degrees rather than absolutes. I have noticed over the last years that Americans online seem to fear their own governments more than others. Take McDonalds. What McDonalds does is not sufficiently serious to invoke the prohibitive hand of government. Not even tobacco has done so. Alcohol attracts only regulation. Drugs that used to be legal (mj in the 1920's) are now illegal, and some people argue that the two reasons for that are (1) keeping it illegal keeps the profits high for the unscrupulous, and (2) keeping it illegal keeps excess law enforcement personnel employed.

Where is there a lack of balance? Most schemes work best when not pushed to extreme. You agree with child labour laws, but might not support the degree of intervention I support. I support a free market but do not support an absolutely unregulated market for the reasons I gave. Nobody knows the perfect balance, but that's why we have politics and ideologies. The devil is in the details, but I suspect neither of us is an extremist. Unless, of course, we decide to do a rant just for fun?