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To: TimF who wrote (24328)	8/21/2012 6:19:39 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 85487

<<“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.” - Milton Friedman>. Why didn't free markets end slavery or segregation? And if you answer because of government, then you are implying we can function without government. It is a circular argument, a tautology if you will, that makes no sense. This is a stupid discussion, That is all I am trying to get you to see. We cannot have a government that is run only by capitalism. A govenrment must be a combination of a democracy and capitalism. A democratic government must be the foundation/struture of society and capitalism should function within that structure.

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