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To: Road Walker who wrote (1167)	8/2/2008 1:41:06 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

This county has been VERY successful with that regulation. Other countries with little or no regulation are poverty stricken hell holes. Coincidence? I don't think so. Perhaps you need to study a little history. The United States was founded with "little or no regulation", and instead of becoming a "poverty stricken hell hole", grew into the most powerful and successful economy the world has ever known. If all of the current confiscatory taxes and stifling regulations had been in place in 1776, then this country would be a poverty stricken hell hole. The free market is always more productive and efficient than any command economy. The 20th century was rife with glaring examples of this fact. What you government kissing liberals fail to grasp is that the economic freedom that was essential to this country becoming what it is, is also essential to its being able to grow and thrive in the future. When you strangle the golden goose, it will no longer lay golden eggs, a fact that seems to escape too many moronic politicians. We're now coasting on past glory, and the rot permeating Washington DC (from both major parties) seems to ensure that the decline of our once great country will continue unabated. It's quite instructive to see that the former Soviet satellite countries are now the most fervent champions of free enterprise. They've lived, first hand, in your wonderful world of massive government control, and know, to a far greater extent than pampered western liberals, what freedom really means..

To: Road Walker who wrote (1167)	8/2/2008 7:14:21 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Other countries with little or no regulation are poverty stricken hell holes Under Cowperwaithe Hong Kong was and is one of the freest economies of the past half century. Freedom Rock is so resource poor they have to import water. Their example is being, at least partly, emulated in much of Asia. This to the tremendous benefit of the citizenry. And they followed the same free market, limited government patterns used so successfully in other times and places. If trends continue folks like yourself might eventually have to open their eyes.

To: Road Walker who wrote (1167)	8/4/2008 2:57:06 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

They interfere a lot, and its a bad trend, but they still don't interfere as much as many other countries, and thats an advantage for Americans. Again and again you make posts as if the level of interference of the US government in the economy was pegged to the maximum, that no increase, or at least no significant increase is possible, but as extensive as the intervention is, and as unfortunate as some of it is, the intervention could become quite a bit more extensive. Other countries with little or no regulation are poverty stricken hell holes. Intervention isn't just regulation. Many of those poverty stricken hell holes are in such a state because of government intervention in the economy. Zimbabwe and North Korea being obvious examples, but far from the only ones. The US has more complex regulations than such countries, but the regulations are complex, partially because they lay our rules, and even limits, rather than just the government leader or leaders arbitrarily and capriciously deciding what they will seize or control or limit.