> RoMunn wrote: > I disagree, we never gave it a chance to play out. We didn't even start with > laissez faire.
That's true, but what I've learned is that it will never, ever work in our country anyway. First, as you point out we never had it. Second, as we've learned, our society has no tolerance for its peaks and valleys. Laissez Faire will inevitably mean booms and busts - busts equal to or worse that the great depression. And this will happen because, frankly, at the end of the day 98% of Americans are idiots. They don't know how to manage their money, they don't know how to read contracts, they're prone to fads, trends, peer pressure and in general are very unsophisticated money and career managers. Thus, as with social security, it's been proven that the government needs to protect people from their own IQ deficiency. That DOESN'T MEAN communism. It means that the European social democrat tradition is probably the right mix. But what it more means is that the Regan Revolution is fully and truly dead. It means that Republicans have lost all credibility for fiscal governance. It might mean, if Obama does his job right, that people will start valuing non-military service to community as much - or more - as they do military service. And that might mean that it will be become "smart" again for our nation's top minds to go into government rather than earn their 1st million before they're 30. Because what we've all learned is that that's generally only possible by screwing the dolts NOT in finance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283006 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
