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To: tejek who wrote (3242)	3/3/2009 9:59:55 AM
From: Oeconomicus	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

"Don't worry.....your free markets won't disappear. However, they won't be quite as free as they have been in the past." Or as large, or as robust, or as productive, or as welfare-enhancing for all. There is no greater force for the betterment of mankind than free individuals working, within the law, for the betterment of their OWN lives. You post about leveling playing fields, but a government directed economy is the most UNlevel of playing fields. Economic success depending on political favor rather than the merit of one's ideas or the productivity of one's labor? A nation of rent-seekers. No thanks.

To: tejek who wrote (3242)	3/3/2009 8:42:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

Free markets are for trading and making money. There is nothing to suggest that they provide a moral good to the country other than as a secondary benefit. Freedom is itself a moral good, in the broad sense of that term. And restricting it is a moral bad. And you have managed to convince or intimidate most of the rest of the population into believing the same fables. That's wrong on so many levels. Starting with the assertion that the ideas that free markets are a better way to control the economy that centralized government control, and extending to the idea that there has been some decisive move in public opinion, or government policy towards supporting free markets either recently or any time in the past decade. Also you never answered my question. Why don't you apply the same standard to government action? When government is heavily involved in something and it produces poor results why don't you see that as evidence against government meddling, why does only the market have to be perfect?