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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (3386)	11/2/2001 10:01:31 AM
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What did Art Linkletter say, "children say the darndest things". Children, in particular, seem to assume strong governmental control over the economy. The Democrats want to nationalize industry. In interviews with Israeli children between eight and fifteen years old, psychologist David Leiser (1983) found that nearly half of the children assumed that the government sets all prices and pays all salaries. It isn't a bad assumption since at root it's true because at root this country is socialist. Even children who said that employers pay salaries often believed that the government provides the money for the salaries. They don't directly, but government policies encourage an environment of ever rising prices. This kind of environment slowly moves the society to socialism where the government does end up providing salaries to ever larger quantities of people. A significant majority of the students assumed that the government pays the increased salaries after a strike. This is more true than it seems. It is government who invokes collective bargaining which is nothing more than fixing the price of labor at a higher rate. And many younger children had the seemingly contradictory belief that the government is also responsible for organizing strikes." Resnick, 123. This is also indirectly true since government creates inflationary policies which drive the need to organize in order to form a monopoly which has the market power to force raised compensation. A strike direct target passes the cost of the strike's increased compensation onto buyers of the target's product. So, a strike is against everyone else in society.