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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (194085)	7/31/2006 3:15:39 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Free market thinkers honest? You have got to be kidding. What is a free market in reality? Is the stock market a free market? Is the local farmers' market a free market? Is WalMart a free market? What does it mean? Children and childlike adults think a 'free' market is one where no one is in charge, there are no rules and winner takes all. Is that how the stock market works? The stock market, the local farmer's market, WalMart exist only because there are regulations, rules and laws imposed upon them and around them. How many hundreds and thousands of laws and regulations govern the NYSE? NASDAQ? How many govern WalMart? People swallow this inane pablum about freedom and democracy and capitalism and socialism and other crappola as if it were true and not propaganda. Communism has never and will likely never exist in the human species because we're simply not stupid enough to live collectively or enlightened enough to share for our mutual benefit. Here is another truly frightening definition of communism. Oh, I'm so scared: "An economic theory which stresses that the control of the means of producing economic goods in a society should reside in the hands of those who invest their labor for production. In its ideal form, social classes cease to exist, there is no coercive governmental structures, and everyone lives in abundance without supervision from a ruling class." www.ilstu.edu/class/hist127/terms.html