Subsidizing our way to stupidity

Another example of hypocrisy in the so called free market economy that we idolize so much both in the West and in the keeping up with the Jones's economies of the developing coutries. I don't know of any way of getting out of this hole that we keep digging ourselves into. Pouring money into the private sector which at other times always cries "wolf" when any hint of regulation threatens their ability to make money, seems to me the ultimate betrayal of government.