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To: Carry_Okie
It socializes what risk?
136 posted on 02/19/2005 2:55:32 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
It socializes what risk?

A whole slew of small things that add up to a lot or mean a great deal to individual enterprises.

For example: When you enforce open importation of agricultural goods without adequate inspection, you reduce the cost of imports that compete with domestically produced goods. The socialized risk is of importing a pathogen or seed of a weed. Right now we have anopheles mosquitos in little artistic bamboo house plants. We have eupatorium (a weed) escaping all over the central coast (think of a dandelion bush that grows six feet tall and four feet wide with ten times the seed). Americans bear the risk of the cost of malaria or treating those problems which exist as an externality to the contractual participants who benefited by the import transaction.

See Part IV, Chapter 2 – Dangerous Species Act. :-)

This is to say nothing about the value of a local food supplier who is loyal to American interests. To export that production is to socialize the risk of a politically motivated interruption by which to create artificial shortage maintained by regulatory power. It will (no, not "may" but "will") work EXACTLY the same way the power crisis did, which is no accident because the principal proponents of this kind of liberalization and regulation are the same people who created that debacle.

Liberalize imports and investment overseas, regulate domestic production to death, control distribution with middlemen to screw the little people abroad (as is going on in the coffee market), drive people off their farms and into cities as cheap labor for factories (and teach them communism), socialize the risk of resulting shortages, and cash in. It's the same old game.

144 posted on 02/19/2005 4:17:02 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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