To the editor:

I found Jon Berg’s letter of Saturday, Oct. 10 fascinating. He performs the dizzying feat of equating the Glass-Steagall Act, an act to regulate banks and unfettered capitalism, thereby protecting the majority of citizens from corporate greed, to a form of fascism.

The American people are suffering right now, TODAY, thanks to this unfettered capitalism.

“The Market for Liberty,” by Linda and Morris Tannehill, is nothing more than propaganda to help assuage the guilt of people like Gramm-Leach-Bliley who work on behalf of the culture of greed.

Look around, Mr. Berg. We are living, right now, this dream of the “Free Market,” and when you scratch beneath the surface, you will find a type of fascism that puts profits ahead of people. Insurance companies that are supposedly in competition with one another for the betterment of all in “The Market for Liberty,” in reality collude and fix prices, making competition a myth, and are only in it for the money. (Think insurance company death panels to raise profits.)

If you don’t think this is true, then just follow the money river to the people that we elect to represent us.

They, more often than not, take huge amounts of money and legislate on behalf of the very people that were controlled by the Glass-Steagall Act.

I know that I may be naïve, but I truly believe in a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.” You know, democracy — not the type of government you apparently envision.

Dan Freeman

Clinton