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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (118964)	12/22/2000 11:08:54 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That is not even the most pertinent thing. There is no more reason to take actives measure to save the small farmer, as opposed to easing the transition, than there was to take active measures to save the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker from the supermarket. Economic change is often painful to sectors of the economy that are being left behind. We do not ride horse and buggies: whip makers must have lamented the advent of the automobile. After all of the investment in the 19th century railroads, cars and airplanes came along, and now, the only passenger line that could survive without subsidy is in the Northeast corridor, between Washington and New York. (Freight rail is still a vibrant sector). As Schumpeter said, capitalism is about "creative destruction......