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To: Jeff Head
There's your mistake - government has absolutely no right to dictate who or where a private businessman can hire. If you can't handle that one aspect of free trade, capitalism, and freedom, then you have no right to call yourself a capitalist.

By damning the entire capitalist philosophy because some can not compete in a capitalist free market, you are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

The "Outsourcing Bray" has become the new, silky, smooth, seductive argument of the modern day, bloodthirsty communist or fascist, which unfortunately has always had resonance in the masses, i.e., those who always feel that they just do not have enough, and need someone to blame, other than themselves, for their general lack of ingenuity, industriousness, need to reinvent, inability or disinterest to work harder, or acquire new and different skills.

America and its people have always been lean and mean, and ready to compete. Whenever a nation begins to forget that, it starts to look like France, with a sense of entitlement and a need to be coddled and taken care of by a big socialist government.

343 posted on 08/04/2003 10:27:56 PM PDT by Master Soku
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To: Master Soku
Fee Trade of today and such a definition of Capitalist does not represent the Free Market as defined and intended by the founders, IMHO.

To allow known and obvious destructive force into the free market to prey on it and destroy it, who have no intention of promoting to their own people or others whom the have commerce with the foundational principles of the free market...is like allowing known child molesters and rapist to come into your home and live there amongst your wife and children when you are away and somehow call it good.

For over 200 years our nation used the constitutional means provided for to ensure that the Free Market stayed free.

See my post 307 for a further rendition of my own feelings in this regard. In a true free market, where both entities base their commerce on those underlying moral principles, there is no such regulation, nor should there be. hat is why our system became the envy of the world. Departing from it (meaning the underlying moral foundation) has led to the imposition of many, many governmental regulations that are destroying our own free market. Allowing the anti-thesis of those principles unbridled interaction is another step in finishing that job of destruction.

Fregards.

Jeff

344 posted on 08/05/2003 5:31:59 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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