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To: PMG who wrote (7023)	8/13/2001 10:16:23 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

So are you another German socialist?

To: PMG who wrote (7023)	8/14/2001 6:27:12 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<New Zealand is a sad example for the effects of brute force deregulation and too naive beliefs in the "invisible hand". The problem is, markets are not always in balance and the outcomes are not always fair and thus sometimes not wanted by society. > PMG, that's totally wrong. Deregulation is not "brute force". Brute force is the process of regulation. Deregulation is freedom. Neither was a naive belief in free markets or the invisible hand a problem. The naive belief was that governments would be useful by controlling, regulating, smothering, taxing, wasting, paying criminals, paying bludgers, creating apartheid and so on and on and bloody on! Australia is taking over New Zealand. They are doing it because productive New Zealanders are fleeing to Australia. The markets were not allowed to work. Regulations of all sorts of things have been introduced. The problems have grown as the regulations have increased. Cargo-cult, bludging, whinging, economic and technological ignoramuses are voting themselves rich in New Zealand. They are of course failing. Mqurice