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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (3615)	5/13/2001 10:10:14 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 74559

For me the most important thing to remember is that when it comes to money and economic growth, central planners are always going to be on the other side of whatever it is that capitalists want and need. There are limited essential roles for government, and outside that, government is a parasite, or an intermediary for the parasite class. They take advantage of your good nature. Once you figure that out, and figure out which side you are on, it gets easier.

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (3615)	5/14/2001 12:47:14 PM
From: marek_wojna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<The thought that hunts me now and then - and this is central, not tangential, because I feel it is asking the right things for the times after -: what is growth and what is already cancer? How much growth is good and how much is bad? why's 2.1% growth in Germany so bad? Why does it have to be positive ("For Chrissake, who's this idiot...";)?>> Answer is Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", regarding why growth have to be positive. Stock market is a pyramid, which without expanding foundation can stay for a while intact, but as economists and federal reserves trying to support it with the rotten rocks (illusionary paper) it is an ill faced solution. The whole idea of economy without crises sounds very humane and tempting. Unfortunately the nature doesn't work this way and we as humans who don't have a simple clue about the origin of life, universe, still arguing about afterlife, would like to change the whole system and became gods. This part of human race believe in planning. I'm a believer of an accident, collision, since no one can convince me that everything took beginning in the accident. The stock market around the world if it doesn't want to follow communism and become almost extinct must let the nature take the turn, otherwise it will be called government sponsored lottery. We are closer to this one than anybody might think.