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To: Ilaine who wrote (135697)	8/31/2005 1:53:39 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) of 793914

People who believe in freedom are at a slight disadvantage in these debates. Collectivists [not speaking about you personally] can point with pride to the interstates, and cities made possible by government works. But I can’t point to the works that COULD have been built with the capital expended on the interstates. If the people who devoted their working lives to build the interstates had devoted their energy and talent elsewhere, what would they have built? Who knows? Maybe 500mph interurban railroads. Maybe innovative aircraft. Maybe something no one can conceive of today. NO is a marvelous place. If people hadn’t built there, they would have built somewhere else. What marvelous city DIDN’T get built because generations of people built in the unsustainable swamp enabled by government funded levees. It is an article of faith with me [not religious exactly but faith none the less] that when free people find their own solutions, in the long run what they come up with is better, and generates more happiness than what we end up with when we take the collectivist route.

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