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To: VadeRetro

"I think you're completely ignorant of the historical development of trade. It was not a government invention. That governments cannot leave it alone now does not demonstrate that it cannot exist without government. It only demonstrates that dung draws flies."

If you think that modern, global free trade could work with no "intelligent" government regulation, you are a genuine idiot.

If a hacker breaks into a company's computers and empties its accounts, do you suppose they will call someone in the government? Or do you think they would just say, "Hey, he outsmarted us, and we deserve to die. It's survival of the fittest, after all."

If you buy a car with a 100,000 mile warranty, and the car is a lemon but the car company just tells you to get lost, will you try to fight them through legal means (i.e., the governmnent), or will you just say, "Hey, I'm not going to buy a car from them again."

What if you sign a mortgage, and then find out that it contained a clause on page 43 that prohibits you from using your home? Would you say, "Well, I deserve it. I should have read the whole contract." I suspect you would assume that some *government* regulation prevents such a clause.

Use your brain, dude!


75 posted on 01/05/2006 5:41:07 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
The economy is not intelligently designed. That is the question before us. Use your integrity, dude!
76 posted on 01/05/2006 5:43:04 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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