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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (458126)	2/20/2009 3:27:53 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573954

Ted, > You're locked knee devotion to free markets is what has gotten us into this mess. There are good things about free markets and thereare the bad. You max the good and minimize the bad. In the last 8 years both were maxed. The folly of government intervention is thinking that with the right talent and the right motivations, we can have our cake and eat it too. You really don't get it, do you? We're trying to prevent disaster.....a disaster that would force you and your wife to move back in with one of the rents assuming they still have their house. That kind of disaster. Unintended consequences are a b!tch. People smarter than us fall victim to it, and that's true on both sides of the fence. We don't have any grasp of the unknowns, but we do have a grasp on the knowns, including what happens when government grows by leaps and bounds, financed with higher taxes or higher debt. Think the benefits are worth it? Or that we are really facing a "catastrophe" and that the risks of that are too great to leave up to chance? That's what the politicians want you to believe. If you think the Great Depression was a catastrophe, then the answer is yes. If not, then no.