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

To: ColtonGang who wrote (161288)	7/16/2001 3:02:07 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

From Milton Friedman's famous college lecture: How many of you voted today? (no hands). Did you spend any money? (all hands). THAT is how we tell ourselves, in the aggregate, what to do, what to produce, what to stop doing, what to do more of, what to do less of. A free economy is the most perfect democracy imaginable. No one person or group can possibly direct all human activity with the efficiency and perfect feedback of the market. My comment: The attempts to vary from that based on someone's arbitrary values requires the coercive power of the state and equals tyranny...