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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (34735)	4/9/2009 8:50:57 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Most conservatives don't support laissez-faire, that's nothing new. They support something closer to it than Democrats or "moderate Republicans", but not actual laissez-faire. (I user "Democrats and moderate Republicans, because "liberal", also has the meaning of someone who supports laissez-faire, or at least unintrusive government in general terms) In fact, you can argue that modern conservatism is based on an explicit rejection of laissez-faire. Most conservatives don't and haven't supported laissez-faire, and you can even find outright rejection of the idea (esp. if the term is used in the strongest and strictest sense) but "based on" is a real stretch. The last ten years were not laissez-faire That is certainly true. They haven't even been a movement in that direction. I also strongly agree with "And terrible things happen when government is hubristic enough to think that it has cracked it." and "The battle for the open society needs to keep being fought, and re-fought."