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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (336279)	5/3/2007 6:02:55 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573227

"Quoting Thomas Sowell:" Wasn't that the same article where he thought we should have a military coup? I'd question his judgement, if I were you.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (336279)	5/3/2007 6:10:13 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573227

>You can always pick-n-choose isolated data points. Eventually, when you gather lots of data points, they're no longer isolated. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is disappearing. That's bad, right? >"Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized." And yet, some things have worked in the past. We don't know everything, but we know some things. -Z