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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (64096)	2/17/2008 10:50:19 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 90947

any fool knows it would not work. Nobody really knows how well it would work because it hasn't really been tried. Major steps in that direction would probably tend to work fairly well, but they haven't been tried either (and would still leave us from from really using "the Ayn Rand approach"). However, thanks to the input of people like yourselves, we've tried to get close. No we didn't get close, and there was never a serious effort to get close. Instead you had continual massive government intervention in the housing and lending markets, and with the money supply. I am saying that when aspects of the Ayn Rand theory of the world are incorporated into our world, it usually fails miserably. "Aspects of the Ayn Rand theory" almost never get tried, but when small steps are made in the direction of freer markets and more personal liberty they often work pretty well. Trickle down is the classic example. What do you think trickle down means?