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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (64397)	5/8/2008 5:18:39 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Respond to of 543632

The Omen - Hillary's Filly Eight Belles Hillary Clinton a couple days ago told everyone to 'Bet on the Filly' in the Kentucky Derby. The Filly, Eight Belles, was the only female horse in the race. The implication of course was to draw parallels between the Presidential race and the Kentucky Derby with the Female and Filly in each case winning the race thereby beating the odds. In the derby Hillary's Filly Eight Belles placed second and then broke both ankles and had to be euthanized. The Derby winner of course was the favorite, a horse named "Big Brown". Perhaps at 8 o'clock after hearing the clock bells, Hillary will announce that she is dropping out of the race.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (64397)	5/9/2008 1:01:25 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543632

The free market fundamentalists will always believe that doing nothing is better than having government intervene to solve something that we have identified as a problem. Defined that way there are very few free market fundamentalists. Much more common are people who like you believe "do no harm", and "Government frequently (but not always) get things wrong", and see that as a reason to reduce the overall level of government involvement in the economy. Its not just an issue of government getting things wrong, you might be surprised, but I'd agree that people or organizations outside of government also often get things wrong. The difference isn't that the private sector doesn't screw up. It does. But at least when it isn't a government solution you usually have choices. Government solutions OTOH usually aren't optional. Now there are some cases where you really don't want people to have choices. Well when you need to impose control, the government might be the best way to go. Its usually pretty decent at doing that. I'm just not one for imposing a lot of control. You say "but a solution for most problems exist", and I might agree, but the solution isn't always a government solution, in fact often it isn't. Also many times a solution might exist, but might cause or contribute to other problems.