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To: Pelham
What Buchanan wrote reflects Wilhelm Roepke, the economist who was a great favorite at National Review back when it was run by adults and worth reading.

Interesting I guess but if you're intending to refute what I've said, this is certainly is not an argument. Put together a rationale yourself and don't simply refer to something or someone else as though that is any kind of an argument.

Ask yourself if you are or aren't for freedom. If not, why not. Why have so many American's and "conservatives" lost their love and understanding of liberty and freedom from government coercion? It's what this country was built on and what thousands and millions have yearned for and died for.

7 posted on 07/09/2014 9:51:03 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

Certainly I’m for freedom and liberty, something peculiar to the political entity that is the United States. And while a free market is the most efficient tool for pricing and allocating resources a free market hasn’t got some mystical interest in preserving freedom or liberty or the United States. It can’t, of course, because a market has no mind and it is simply a pricing mechanism without any teleological goal.

For many years the Pentagon had an office whose sole job was to assure that strategic industries survived and were not purchased by potential enemies. In the purely free market world envisioned by some libertarians anyone could buy any assets that they wished; anything else would “socialism”- but in the world as it really exists limits on the sale of some assets are the rationale behavior of a people that intends to survive.


9 posted on 07/09/2014 11:00:25 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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