This view this article takes on how much control the government should have over the economy is different than most of the articles I have read on this topic and I think it may have opened my eyes to a whole new view. The main idea of this article is that the government makes all of these rules and spends all of this money, then when their plan doesn't work, they blame it all on the private sector. They then make additional rules and spending to counteract the problems that in reality, they caused. It is easy to blame the private because the general consensus among people is to trust the government so when they blame the private sector, everyone is willing to jump on board because that's what the government says is right. The bigger issue is more specific to our government and their bad decisions in the past. For example, the government made it a priority to bail out the auto industry and financial firms, but they were spending money that they never had. Unnecessary spending is one thing, but when it is money that you don't have, then it's a whole different problem. The point is that the government doesn't always know what's best. For this reason, the author of this article believes that the amount of power the government has should be greatly decreased and the future of the economy should be more left up to the private sector. I'm not saying that I completely agree with this idea. But I do agree with the fact that the majority of Americans are not educated enough on these issues to be responsible for their future. The government should just have to answer to someone instead of them just being able to do whatever they feel is truly the better decision.
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I found this source on Proquest Platinum so I am assuming that both the information and the author are credible.
Should the government have to clear their decisions with the private sector?
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