..as it always have been, there must be a revenue stream to the government from its citizenry.

It is when those revenues are used to benefit one segment of the population over another when it becomes a problem.

We are a capitalist country, true, hence my willingness to leave it alone earlier, however, we are infringing on that to a degree, especially now, that the USG is determining private corps pay scales, that I am not sure we will be able to make that claim much longer.

I am not in any way an anarchist. I am 100% in support of a constitutional federal government.

What a misdiagnosis that is?

 been bleeding jobs. Isn't that obvious? Or did you just chose to ignore that fact.

Her political side can't help but say things like "unproven yet ideologically pure" to debase the idea of letting prices adjust while she has repeatedly advocated the same thing herself when she leaves politics out of it for a moment.

It's a head scratcher.

 proven solution, per se, because there has never really been a current problem like the one we face now.

 My solutions would be the stimulus which should look to the future economy (broadband, transit, education, infrastructure).

Nationalize the failing banks. Yes it's radical but they literally need trillions more of TARP money which will never fly with the public. It would allow the feds to avoid idiots in Congress who think that spending is not fiscal stiumulus.

 Address the foreclosure crises (that's a very tough one) especially since there will be more coming down the pike, which will include commercial paper. (And no one wants to  insure this stuff with bonds?)

 Formulate a new regulatory structure for the banking industry.

 Work with global leaders to try and establish a universal regulatory framework to avoid this mess in the future.

 Keep operating on deficits. Trying to balance the budget now or in the  next decade would be suicide. 

 Get the states to change their budget rules so they can operate on deficits.

 Change the stupid 60 vote rule in Congress that allows one Republican to essentially trump the magority party with the threat of a fake filabuster, so that we can actually pass meaningful legislation by the majority.

 Put a provision in the stiumlus package to pay for night school so that each and every Congressman has to take Economics 101. When Republicans say that spending isn't stimulus they sound like idiots.

 Time! This will need lots of time. This is a much bigger mess than people recognize.

 to give it a serious go, a bit later.

 I am sure in the end you will see things my way! ;-)

The theory that markets are self correcting is actually what has led to our current crises.

Financial markets do not represent the fundamentals of markets. Thus my statement capitalism has come to be viewed as the stock market. It was the use of credit and leverage, not market basics that led to our current crises.

The theory is that financial markets are not self correcting but self de-stabilizing.

Governments have to recognize that market self correction is a myth. That is why we have laws and regulations. Simply picking up the pieces after a bubble bursts is not an adequate solution.

  Market fundamentalists believing that markets will self correct was  the thinking behind allowing Lehman Bros. to fail. No worries the markets can handle it, Let the bohemoth fail.

 The problem is that these fundamentalists did not understand the interconnectedness of the financial system. They preached globalism, but forgot that Lehman had ties to markets around the world. They forgot that AIG would be on the hook to insure this collapse. They forgot that AIG had insured securities in China our biggest creditor and would come up short on the payment due.

 The theory that the markets stabilize themselves...... is an incorrect assumption.

 One would be better off assuming that the markets will always be corrupted and out of balance, and therefore always need to be supervised.

 The natural inclination of markets is for prices to be too high, and labor costs to be too low, because that is where the most profits lie.

(One could posit that unregulated capitalism in the extreme  actually limits freedom. See slavery. In which case the government re-balanced the markets by fighting a war to free the slaves.)

 So in essence, one must recognize that capitalism is a system that is prone to excess, and in a civil society that is governed by laws, it is the duty of the government to keep such excesses in check.

 **confession: I have rewritten this several times to satisfy your precise and specific properness code, though I am sure I haven't met that threshold. I actually do have sound reasons behind my rambling statements. I just have trouble expressing them.