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Sir;... I guess you must have missed the testimony of Mr. Greenspan on Thursday... I am sure he said his ideal of the Free Market, which he had accepted for forty years, had been proved wrong... Now why should you give up your ideal market just because his does not work??? Freedom is good right??? Freedom is a worthy ideal; right??? And what could be wrong with the free market since Market is a simple term??? Wrong...People build house to avoid the vicisstudes of nature... People build levees and bridges to stand the terror of floods... We do not willingly submit to the tyranny of nature even when that nature is human nature... Have some goods come out of the free market??? Certainly; along with much evil and much corruption of government... We are about to get a life long lesson onthe value of the Free Market when it suddenly spins us into poverty and pain... Then; I suggest you go door to door selling your favorite failed idea... Let me offer you a situation... The taxes on labor, and the influence of wealth in government have conspired to remove all the wealth of the nation into private hands... Can the rights of the people stand so long as economic inequality rules their lives??? NO... We must choose to bring justice into our markets and into our lives and into our government... We have to choose between having a free market, and being a free people... We cannot be the slaves of our economies and the masters of our destiny....Think...You may label the people to control them, and to justify their injury... There is no doubt that you stand for your failed ideas, and when the failure of your ideas becomes clear to all, your words will be a shallow defense... Give up on failed ideas... Quit spreading contumely to cover your favored vice... Get on the right side of the issue... Give up on failed ideas, and consider only what works... Ideas may serve a purpose in motivating great numbers toward a certain goal; but if they are destructive of thought, if they prevent people from seeing reality, then they are worse than no ideas at all... We see the world through our ideas, but when the world, when reality, does not fit our ideas, it means the idea is wrong... The free market is an idea that does not work, and it does blind us to the relationships at work... Give up failed ideals... Give up every idea you can live without... Don't ride people who know your ideas don't work... It is not their fault when your ideas do not work... They are the victims of failed ideas... Your choice is simple... Join them, or justify their pain... Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:58 AM
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