re: #213 Barefoot Grin

And then Lee Iacocca got on TV and hectored the American people for preferring reliable, gas-efficient Japanese cars. Those were the days.

I used to really be proud of American Capitalism. Then I saw the US government doing exactly what the USSR did with its industries: baling them out to keep people employed instead of letting inefficient industries fail.

But nobody in America wanted to face the social and political consequences of letting the Invisible hand jerk us around…and we still don’t, unless the people getting jerked are already poor or dark-skinned.