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To: Vor Lady
It isn't Dr. Sowell's model, it's in the Constitution that way.

No, it's not. Here is the list of legitimate uses found in Article I Section 8:

Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;

I'm pretty sure since he teaches economics, he probably understands the free market.

Given that most economics professors are Marxists, I wouldn't be so sanguine as to proffer that position as any indication of knowledge or expertise. My economics adviser in college specialized in game theory as applies to betting on horse races. Just because the media celebrates Dr. Sowell, doesn't mean he always knows what he's talking about.

22 posted on 10/12/2010 1:03:48 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The fourth estate IS the fifth column.)
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To: Carry_Okie

That section describes the authority of Congress over what would become Washington DC, not what the federal government could use eminent domain as a tool for in executing its enumerated powers.

I don’t see eminent domain listed anywhere in the Constitution, though it does seem to be implied by the fifth (not that, IMO, that is enough to justify it).


29 posted on 10/12/2010 2:08:31 PM PDT by Darth Reardon (Some politely call me free)
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To: Carry_Okie
I'm pretty sure since he teaches economics, he probably understands the free market.
Given that most economics professors are Marxists, I wouldn't be so sanguine as to proffer that position as any indication of knowledge or expertise. My economics adviser in college specialized in game theory as applies to betting on horse races.
Sowell himself was a Marxist - until, at age 30, he studied the effect of the "minimum wage" law and determined that it hurt the people it purported to help.
Just because the media celebrates Dr. Sowell
In what universe has that ever happened?
doesn't mean he always knows what he's talking about.
No, it wouldn't, even if it were true.

And the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, either. But that is the way to bet them.

After three decades of following Professor Sowell's writing, I am blithe to say that my money would be on him in any intellectual argument with anyone who was fool enough to take for granted that they had a better grasp of economics, and more wisdom, than he.

32 posted on 10/12/2010 2:42:17 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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