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To: TimF who wrote (146009)	11/6/2008 4:46:13 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

No, it's not government control over the economy, it is good or bad government control over the economy. Go ahead, try and make a market from scratch and see how long it exists without everyone getting together to regulate it...honestly, try it. If regulation from the government wasn't particularly important to 'markets' then why not deregulate commodities and equities markets? Open them up to every tom, dick and harry. Get rid of accounting regulations and disclosure requirements. Get rid of laws against fraud. Who needs to know for sure that their purchase of securities is worth something....oops, that's what got us into this pickle to begin with. Yes, we can certainly have no regulations in all markets. China will be delighted to sell us cheap, melamine-laden chocolate and eggs. We will all die from kidney failure but, heck, the market will still be free! It's ridiculous. I don't like monoculture, corporate agribusiness. I believe it leads to poor health and increased costs for chronic illnesses and low productivity and even low intelligence. So subsidize the cost of organic greens which are too expensive for most people to buy. Subsidize in order to reduce costs or to encourage more production by putting a floor on returns.