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To: longnshort who wrote (85903)	10/6/2011 5:54:51 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

What works?? A MIXED economy. With wise management, knowing when to set rules and when to get out of the way.. A level playing field for competitors... Clean air and water, honest labelling and safety for the workers and end-user/consumers. Let the rich get rich.... on merit. And when the die, tax their estates reasonably so we can fund education and healthcare -- so the next generation has a chance to prove their merit, not bow down to a noble class who get family welfare, born on third base. The *dynamic* economy and global competitiveness demands such generational economic "revolutions", just as a baseball team changes with younger talent over time (Imagine if the old players could buy the team and keep themselves in the lineup till they were 80, and had their kids play the other positions.) Merit lost to a noble class is SOCIAL WASTE. Make sure competitors compete (enforce anti-trust laws.) Don't trade with foreign partners who do not play on a reasonably close playing field, and are allowed to exploit labor or kill the future environment, extracting short term profits from that. Make sure, wherever possible, the externalized costs are paid by the suppliers, in the price, not the public treasury. Where there is competition on that level field, it will more often result in value up-and-down the chain of value; from the owner/investors and banks, to the employees all the way to the consumer, let the prices and services be freely marketed. Government's role stops and value is maximized, prices should be free when not fixed in imperfect ot direct anti-competitive/trusts.. We have a mixed economy, socialist AND capitalist, its really a matter of respecting that rather than the current attempts to game it. We have to stop getting hung-up on the words... We can do this, its reality of the enlightened age. Or we can get knocked-out by economies that float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.