Sure you do. For example, if the Feds didn't step in to fix inflation, we'd be forever fucked. Or it would take a lot of pain before it corrected itself. And for some, under the "let the free market decide" way, would be forever fucked. Like poor people.
Capitalism is just another ism. It has to be tweeked from time to time. And look at the debt. Seems we are operating in a ponzi scheme that one day will collapse and it will be your social security they cut to "save" the program.
Here are a couple of headlines for those who haven't had the time to study both economics and history: There is no such thing as a "free market." The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans...
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Every country has a government. Some are good and some are bad.
So yes, we do want the government "managing" our collective asses. If they aren't they aren't doing their job. That's exactly what Republicans want. Then they can pay American workers shitty wages, pollute, hire illegals and gouge us.