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From: Carbon on 20 Oct 2009 21:40 On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:32:17 +0000, assimilate wrote: > On 19-Oct-2009, "gray asphalt" <dontwrite(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> When you have lobbyists and special interest legislation there will >> be no free market. Libertarian ideas are just that, ideas. Not >> pragmatic. Perfection that gets in the way of the doable. Escapism, >> imo. They do need to be heard,though, but not treated as a realistic >> possibility, imo. > > Like any ideals, they are goals to strive for. May I ask why, since you yourself concede that free markets are impossible?
From: assimilate on 21 Oct 2009 02:49 On 20-Oct-2009, "gray asphalt" <dontwrite(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Credible sources have railed against the banking > industry and the investment industry being able to > cross over. Cedible sources? If they are so credible, cite them -- bill-o
From: assimilate on 21 Oct 2009 02:52 On 20-Oct-2009, "gray asphalt" <dontwrite(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The markets are getting less free, no? it seems that way, hopefully a temporary trend. -- bill-o
From: assimilate on 21 Oct 2009 02:54 On 20-Oct-2009, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > >> When you have lobbyists and special interest legislation there will > >> be no free market. Libertarian ideas are just that, ideas. Not > >> pragmatic. Perfection that gets in the way of the doable. Escapism, > >> imo. They do need to be heard,though, but not treated as a realistic > >> possibility, imo. > > > > Like any ideals, they are goals to strive for. > > May I ask why, since you yourself concede that free markets are > impossible Do you not have ideals you strive to acheive, like, I dunno, a single digit handicap, no matter how impossible? -- bill-o
From: assimilate on 21 Oct 2009 03:57
On 19-Oct-2009, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act Glass-Steagall is the scapegoat that the pols hide behind hoping no one will notice what they've done. -- bill-o |