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To: grey_whiskers
I do find it interesting that some people complain about bureaucrats and bureaucracies, then turn around and claim they know what's better for others.

As for people acting irrationally, in most cases they should have the liberty to do so as well. I'm not much of a libertarian . . . I'm a free-market conservative. Ronald Reagan observed that the two travel along the same path.

514 posted on 10/05/2007 6:44:42 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
I'm a free-market conservative.

From what I have seen of your arguments, you are are neither for a free market, nor a conservative.

On the free market, Reagan rejected your definition of market freedom, as he astutely recognized the games foreign adversaries played, hence he DEMANDED bilateral fairness when dealing with the stacked decks they set up. Reagan also recognized that small American manufacturers...the very fount of creativity, needed special warding against foreign governmental monopoly attacks.

He would have been especially dubious of the freedom of international markets dominated by a communist tyranny such as China. Why do you think he was so zealous at strangling the Soviet's from our capital and technology?

Nor are you particularly conservative since you don't seem to care a wit about national defense, let alone our industrial capacity to sustain it.

564 posted on 10/06/2007 8:56:09 AM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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