I didn't get a chance to follow up fully (and still can't, yet), but here's more response
Originally Posted by Senator Hatrack
Apparently you have forgotten about the REAGAN DEMOCRATS.
Wiff! Some democrats voted for Reagan in 1984, it is true, but that has nothing - absolutely nothing - to do with the Reagan-worship that pervades the current Republican party. I can't fathom how that is not obvious to you, unless it is willful blindness. Apples-zuchini.

Originally Posted by Senator Hatrack
Laissez faire is an economic theorem. A theorem that rejects government interventions because the preferred expectations of government interventions cannot achieved in realty.
I'm not sure you realize you directly contradicted your previous post, and confirmed my point entirely. I'll leave it at that, and thank you.

Originally Posted by Senator Hatrack
That is a false analogy. When the US was using all of the concrete it did from 1901 – 2000 the decision of how and for what it was used was made mostly by the private sector. The decision of how and for what it the concrete is used for in China in the last three years was made by its government. Governments build large dams, like the Three Gorges Dam, the private sector doesn’t. Should China ever become a Capitalist country it probably will eat our lunch.
Again, thanks for proving my point explicitly, although I'm not sure you realized it, given your opening comment. The point was that governments can do big economic projects efficiently (which you conceded), some things that capitalist efforts won't/can't do.

I wish, my friend, you could just concede a point, rather than pretending it's still a fight.

More to come. Gotta run.