Take those evil banks that wouldn’t lend to minorities, closing them out of the housing market. Everyone deserves a good home, so government had to step in with new laws and create the taxpayer-backed Freddie and Fannie, in order to force those greedy bankers to loan money to minorities so they could buy houses. The next thing we knew, those evil speculators tricked a bunch of poor people into purchasing houses they couldn’t afford; and other evil speculators bundled the loans; and the evil Wall Street executives bet American’s retirement money on the bundles, until it all came crashing down on itself. Then the government had to bail out those “too big to fail” on Wall Street and the banks. Now the greedy Wall Street and bank executives are getting paid too much, so the government has to restrict their pay and realign it to lower the risks they take.

Another example is our current healthcare market. We’ve been told the evil insurance companies don’t care about patients and do everything they can to restrict necessary procedures. (Don’t ask me why the healthcare plans include forcing every American – strike that and change it to every resident in America – to purchase health insurance.) Additionally, doctors are cutting off diabetics’ feet and removing children’s tonsils to make a profit. (Maybe we should keep diabetics and children away from these greedy doctors.) The healthcare market is so bad that the government believes it will be able to squeeze out the waste in order to cover more people at a lower cost per person. And we can’t even consider ideas like selling insurance across state lines or allowing individuals the same tax breaks that employers receive for purchasing health insurance. We all know that allowing more market freedom would just cause more greed and evil-doing, which would then require additional government involvement in order to save us all.

Geez - with all of this evidence of market evil, the last thing we need is to create a new market. J