Jim Dator wrote:
>
> Here, here, Tom and Arthur. THAT is always the rub. Everyone I observe who
> favors "free-market capitalism" expects "the government" to provide a
> docile, competent work force (and more importantly, consumers); regulate
> OTHER economic activities; permit them to strive for (and hopefully
> obtain) monopoly unimpeded; AND, as you both point out, absorb the costs
> of their failures or greed, meanwhile cutting taxes and allowing them to
> hog a disproportionate share of the wealth.
>
> Sounds like a GREAT game if you can get "the masses" to go along. With the
> aid of the police, military, public education, and media (the latter
> which they directly own and control), the others they strongly
> influence, they CURRENTLY have "the masses" on their side in the hope
> against hope that they, too, can one day strike it rich in the
> government-backed global casino called the stock market.
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I just can't resist observing this is the best enumeration of the
proficiencies of The Invisible Hand -- or is it The Invisible Croupier
--
I've seen yet! Monty Python's autonomized boot only had the skill
of squashing things by stepping on them....
Are there perhaps some ghosts in this machine?
\brad mccormick
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