Dave Hall wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:35:00 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:
Dave Hall wrote:
On 27 Jul 2004 23:41:48 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:
SIGN SEEN ON A TIP JAR TODAY:
Hey, Republicans! Afraid of change? Leave it here! :-)
The jar was owned by a Democrat of course.
Yup. Just another hard working American trying to scratch a living together.
Just a single mom too proud to take welfare, and working for the subsistence
mini-wages paid by a billionaire "compassionate conservative". \
She was paid the wages dictated by the free market, which have nothing
to do with the government.
With a statement like this, Dave, you have demonstrated how naive and
simple-minded you are. There is no free market in the absence of
government.
Horsecrap.
Government is the ultimate impeder of the free market. A free market
needs no government to operate.
Government is involved fundamentally through the creation and
enforcement of property rights, without which what you are calling a
"free market" cannot be achieved.
I'm involved in a worldwide project that has as one of its goals the
establishment of a methodology that enables poor people in undeveloped
countries to rebuild their little villages and set up businesses.
Financial resources are needed to finance these projects, as is some way
to "secure" the real property on which these businesses might be
established. But in some of these countries, the concept of land title
or even ownership is unknown. Right now, I suppose, these folks have a
true free market...they can barter...but they are going nowhere. They
need government to help them establish a framework in which they can
developed a real marketplace.
As I stated, your knowledge is a mile wide but only a millimeter deep.
Read some books.
--
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in
Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me -
you can't get fooled again." -George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept.
17, 2002