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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (31294)	10/8/2001 8:10:10 PM
From: St_Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

"A true free market gives more freedom to everyone. It does however lead to imbalances in wealth and power and can lead to suffering...." This sounds contradictory to me. Wealth and power have nothing to do with freedom? Anyway... We're getting off the point. This began with the question of whether communism was entirely evil. I argued that it wasn't, suggesting that it's focus upon (to put it tritely I guess) the plight of the worker, contributed to and in some ways forced great and needed labor reforms in this country shortly after the turn of the nineteenth century and beyond. FDR, at the time, under his circumstances, did what many would describe as an heroic job of trying to balance the socialist idea that as human beings we have certain entitlements, with the capitalist/free-market idea (which is just as important) that likewise as human beings, merit and excellence ought to count for something. We continue to struggle to balance these often and seemingly inconsistent demands, as well we should. It was the absence of care directed at this balance that had led to the extinction of general freedom by totalitarian regimes, some of which were capitalist. Look back at the halcyon days of full-blown capitalist-imperialism.