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To: garbanzo

Me neither!

It is just that two other posters thought your example was excellent. It wasn’t. It was Marxist. We need to guard against that, especially since those currently in power view the free market as flawed and in need of government oversight.

Given Obama’s actions in regards to the polticization of GM and the financial industry; his promise to take over/bailout other industries; and Maxine Water’s gaffe on controlling all businesses - well, we better not use their line of reasoning or else we may end up doing their dirty work for them.


37 posted on 04/02/2009 5:17:22 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD
It was Marxist.

I resent this. It's not Marxist to point out that markets involve risk or uncertain outcomes. It is in fact part of the system. Markets go up, markets go down, people make money, people lose money. These are features, not bugs in free market societies.

Secondly, the lines of reasoning used are irrelevant to actual Marxists because they don't use or respond to reason or logic. Their fundamental outlook is emotional and irrational.

38 posted on 04/02/2009 6:06:45 PM PDT by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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