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To: Road Walker who wrote (22625)	8/12/2010 11:36:51 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

The US (and colonial America before it) has always been more prosperous than most of the rest of the world, regardless of the amount of government regulation. Your argument that 1) we/ve been prosperous and 2) we've had a bunch of government regulation for some time ...... doesn't show cause and effect between the regulation and the prosperity. How about this: We've been very prosperous and we're more religious than most other nations. Can you draw a conclusion our prosperity is a blessing from God? Or: We've been very prosperous and we have more freedom of religion than anywhere else. Ergo, freedom of religion leads to prosperity. Or: We've been very prosperous and we have more oil and gas companies than any other country. Ergo, oil and gas development leads to prosperity. Want me to keep going?

To: Road Walker who wrote (22625)	8/12/2010 12:00:06 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 86356

We've been very prosperous. We've had a ton of government regulation; virtually everything you touch every day. Draw your own conclusion. So when the progressives/liberals/democrats point out the sorry state of he economy and that it is the failure of the free market, you don't agree with them. Since there are "a ton of government regulation", there is no free market. Therefore any failure in the economy must be a failure of government intervention. Or is it your argument that the economy is healthy?