Interestingly enough all of these radicals advocating for national healthcare and the whole socialist agenda exist and function only because of capitalism: http://socialistsatthegate.blogspot.com/2009/08/community- organizers-owe-their.html

John,

If you want to talk about crony capitalism, it may pay to have Burton Fulsom who wrote "The Myth of the Robber Barons" on the program. I think the key is to delineate between political entrepreneurs and market entrepreneurs, something which he does astutely in that book.

Political entrepreneurs seek to use government decrees to profit, largely by cartelization, monopoly advantages and other barriers to entry, while market entrepreneurs generally seek to win profits in the market by merit - by producing the best product at the cheapest price.

More generally, the Mouch problem lies in the fact that while initially businessmen extol the virtues of little regulation, low barriers to entry and minimal...

John,

You should do a special which follows throughout the last couple of hundred years in America those truly productive entrepreneurs who won in the free market based on producing the best product at the best price, versus those who tried to use government subsidies and regulations to solidify their positions in industry.

In this way, you could show how true unfettered capitalism is the proper route, while the type of mixed economy fraught with regulations meant to "protect" people and encourage "fairness" actually ends up hurting the people.

Also, maybe you could have a special on Bastiat's "broken window fallacy," and its application to government.