Reply #34: Thank you for the information [View All]

[Time for change]

What I was trying to do here, rather than define the ideal circumstances in which capitalism can flourish, is discuss circumstances where a pure capitalism model is deeply flawed -- and yet our government is filled with free market ideologues (all Republicans AFAIK) who believe that there should be almost no exceptions to a pure captitalism model for the way that our country runs.

With regard to housing, I'm not sure why my list doesn't fit. While it is true that a lot of people are homeless in our country I see no reason why it has to be like that. I am not advising that the government should take over the housing industry, but as with Medicare for example, I do believe that the government should be involved at least to the extent that everyone is assured of a reasonably decent place to live. In other, a mixed model, where there is some involvement of government, so as to make sure that millions of people are not priced completely out of the housing market -- as is currently the case.