IT'S ONE THING TO SUGGEST THAT FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM WITH AMERICAN CHARACTERISTICS IS THE LAST AND ONLY HOPE AVAILABLE for the Lower Classes to "save themselves from themselves"--as in their "empowerment towards self-reliance and personal responsibility after years of helpless enslavement to State welfare" and its presumed "tendencies towards promoting Socialist thinking."

But it's another to actually offer proof that can substantiate such a claim.

Hence, it was time to ask ye of that ilk some serious questions in this regard as deserve being asked for once:

1. Have you any evidence substantiating your contention that welfare cases are somehow being "conditioned into Socialistic, Communistic or otherwise un-American beliefs" solely because of welfare?
2. How sure are you that free-market capitalism can actually "empower" these same welfare cases towards "a renewed healthy respect for industry, self-reliance and personal responsibility"?
3. Would the last point be conditioned by a state of replacing "undue and unnecessary" State regulatory burden with industry-based self-regulation based on Codes of Good Practice?
4. Have you any examples of self-regulatory codes in the "here and now" actually working, actually encouraging healthy competition, freedom of choice and lower prices consistent with your beliefs in the free market being one with American soverignty and soverign identity, and vice versa?
5. How sure are you that these self-regulatory Codes of Good Practice won't be expected to secretly contain "outs" which could be used to excuse cartel behaviour and anti-competitive practices generally as are against public interest, among them:
   1. fraud, waste and inefficency?
   2. price-fixing or Reseller Price Maintenance Agreements?
   3. "non-compete agreements" as could be used against retailers?
   4. controlling or restricting distribution or supplies regionally?
   5. restricting or banning brand advertising?
   6. controlling or restricting production and supply from time to time just to create artificial shortages and arbitrarily keep prices higher than necessary?
6. Name @ least three examples of developed countries as can be considered democratic societies where self-regulated free market capitalism has actually empowered the Lower Classes towards your desired aims, and how such can be emulated by the "morally superior" United States.
7. Of such examples I have illustrated in the point preceding, have such actually resulted in net reductions of welfare caseloads in favour of employment?

We would appreciate some honest answers, not carefully-scripted platitudes and bromides or "Freeping" designed to confuse or mislead--and carefully thought-out beforehand, besides.