Bush: "free market principles have delivered prosperity and hope to people around the world"

Today Bush had mental diarrhea and we got to catch a whiff of some of his finest defecations yet. What prosperity and hope has been given to the people of the world by the princes of the world with their principles of free trade? None; the people of the world have given prosperity and hope to the free traders with their principled submission and slavish work-ethic.

Bush is quite concerned that even though you can fix most everything by just saying "mistakes were made," you can't go on doing that forever, and for some reason he acted as if it were important that people realize that the answer is "not to try to reinvent the system".

Perhaps he's feeling the heat; perhaps he is sensing that the political system is irrelevant and outdated, like a fundamentally authoritarian system feeling for some reason the need to hold 'elections' to justify itself to the ruled, but one way or another, today Bush felt the need to inform us that even though capitalism is "not perfect", it is nonetheless "by far the most efficient and just way of structuring an economy". But without capitalism, what is left of economy?

Only the economy of human dialogue and self-management, where a supply of ideas and energy balances harmoniously with a demand for abundance and prosperity... but is that anywhere near Bush's conception of 'economy?' of course not. When Bush thinks 'economy,' he's thinking of everything that exists, everything that's 'structured.' The world is reduced to economics in Bush's brain just like it is in the brain of a typical communist bureaucrat, but the former likes things as they are, whereas the latter wants to turn them downside up... which of course is still off kilter, and of course never simply smashed. Are any of these magical characters worth listening to?

According to the news, Bush's message was: "while financial markets do need some new regulation and more transparency, free trade should not be restricted." According to the bureaucratic false opposition: "while the economy does need some new managers and more bureaucratically managed welfare systems, hierarchy should not be restricted." According to the subversion-minded: "while capitalism and all its 'economy' do need to be completely abolished, all hierarchies done away with and religions given up, freedom should not be restricted."