If you give up your independence are you even entitled to celebrate Independence Day?
I'm on the last leg of a three-week trip through the northeast which has included visits to the birthplace of America (Williamsburg, VA), the birthplace of liberty (Boston, MA), the birthplace of the constitution (Philadelphia, PA), and the place where liberty and the constitution and the nation as we know it are dying a slow and tortured death (Washingotn, DC). We've just been in Maine where aberrant Democrats in the state government are massively cutting taxes to stimulate their economy, and are spending the night of the Fourth of July in Lexington where the first shots of the revolution were fired. There are tea parties and protests scheduled all around us, but they seem futile against the entropic force of the tide of history.…
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76 - roger nowosielski
I would have thought that all the proponents of "unregulated markets" should have learned their lesson by now. Have they forgotten the present economic crisis which, quite rightly, can be traced to deregulation-crazed Reagan?
77 - Cindy
"...it is corporations suddenly behaving responsible out of desperation..."
Dave? You are admitting that corporations are irresponsible? Doesn't this give your whole ideology a black eye? If they CAN be irresponsible then they do not work via some magical free market balancing act scheme. What would Uncle Milton say?
Isn't that diametrically opposed to saying that the free market can solve everything? How can you even consider handing over responsibility for the welfare of society to a bunch of irresponsible corporations?
By the way, here is my vision for the future of the U.S.:
"About 500 miners seized eight supervisors at the Crocodile River Mine on Thursday, demanding permanent jobs. Three fled overnight.
(snip)
The managers had been kept 30 metres underground, without water or food."
78 - Cindy
I am waiting for any example of a free market that ever existed in any technological society. From what I understand there are/were none...zero.