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Have you read the bios on Neutrino and A. Pole, or noticed their positions on various topics on other threads?

Neutrino starts bio, "I voted GWB in primaries and election but never again yada yada yada." Neutrino's positions on this thread so far: Constitution is a LIVING DOCUMENT yada yada yada, Cato Institute is a conservative think tank with an ax to grind yada yada yada, Ricardo and free market economics are old and useless in complex world yada yada yada, I hate the Von Mises Thesis to pieces yada yada yada, Joe's facts, graphs, Hong Kong and two hundred years of free market success must be ignored in complex GLOBAL ECONOMY yada yada yada, must ignore point about Karl Marx's crappy economic theory being from Ricardo's time period yada yada yada...

A Pole writes in another thread that if we are to say free market economics won't work because of gov't intervention then we can also say communism won't work because there are some bad people.

Troll alert! Folks, we have visitors from the DU faculty department! Mo, Terry, and Kerry must be proud.

Thanks for the summary. I can't say if the folks you discuss are really leftist trolls or not, but I can say that the positions they espouse are not conservative in any sense that I understand the term. (But then, I never understood how Pat Buchanan could be considered conservative, either.)

I'm particularly disturbed by their seeming acceptance of the idea that government has the ability to make complex decisions to manage economic factors. There is not a case in the history of the world where that is true. From the Soviet Union with full scale communism to Japan with managed trade to Sweden with welfare-state socialism to the dictatorships of South America, giving government control over economic matters *always* results in disaster long term. I thought that was one point understood by all conservatives.

Not that I particularly mind, but why was I pinged to this?

I had not previously commented on this thread and usually stay in "read-only" mode on economic and out-sourcing threads.