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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (4148)	11/1/2000 7:09:36 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

<<He's also for fair trade, that means that he will protect business from unfair practices whether domestic or foreign. In practice "fair trade" often amounts to a way to undermine truly free trade. >> We will see FAR less "Crony Capitalism" When one speaks of "Fair Trade" the listener must assume they are talking about "fair for themselves" or in our world of payoffs & corruption it might be better said "Fair for Whom". I seen all the "Fair Trade" my stomach can take for a lifetime! We must begin to understand the difference between "Fair Trade" and "Free Trade"! I demand FREE TRADE! I tire of the empty promises of this administration toward a more open market in Japan or Europe or.... We as Americans deserve nothing less than a far more Open & Free Market! Selective Market Intervention & Bailouts are nothing less than another subsidy & Tax! While, in truth, we aren't speaking of black & white, of the pure idea of "Free Market capitalism", at the margin, a Republican Congress & President will buy us a far more Free Transparent Market. We will see a market more Free of Intervention such as the Bailout of Mexico which provided a profit to a select few. While absolute Liassez Faire market economics will never be seen, The change to GWB will be a move in the right direction, if only to provide balance. A move in any other direction with less intervention for the current group getting a profit "Crony Capitalism" will yield a more free market for us all, if only due to change in players. Republicans - at the margin - are far less willing to intervene in the Free Market Process - for their own profit. More Republicans believe in the Darwinian concept of survival of the Fittest - when it applies to companies.