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not doing so in the tradition of Smith and Ricardo

Are Smith and Ricardo some type of infallible oracle or unholy prophets? Is your freemarket ideology a cult? You guys treat their writings like Muslims treat Koran.

See my tagline.

671 posted on 02/06/2006 10:12:22 AM PST by A. Pole (" There is no other god but Free Market, and Adam Smith is his prophet ! Bazaar Akbar! ")

"Is your freemarket ideology a cult?"

LOL! You hit the nail on the head! For a lot of these guys, freetrade is like some kind of fundementalist religion, instead of a theory of how markets behave efficiently when there isn't any "fine print" involved.

Instead of considering a system of completely Free Trade as a goal that might be achieved sometime down the road (like "Free Energy, World Peace, eradication of all human disease, and interplanetary space travel), they insist that we all grab a glass of Kool-Aide and chant the vitues of Free Trade with evangelical fervor.