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To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (6021)8/31/1998 9:24:00 AM
From: Sam  Respond to of 9980
 
Larry,
"But he expressed dismay that it was due mostly to economic cupidity rather than fuddy-duddy libertarian principles."
I find it amazing that he would express dismay at this. Shows his naivette, IMO. This is exactly the point that critics of "pure" capitalism have made for years, that, yeah, of course there are libertarians who capitalists, but their are also many plain greedy control freaks who pose as capitalists, and that is why we need government controls. Just how those controls are structured and executed is, of course, the big problem. When the government is controlled by the greedy control freaks, well, there is no solution to that. Thats what elections and revolutions are for.

Libertarians are idealists too, even though they tend to not like the term.