On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:50:41PM -0400, Fran Parker wrote: > Carl Sagan, as the Narrator of Cosmos, describes a statue on the > main wall of the Amsterdam Town Hall: > > "Justice, with a golden sword, and golden scales. And who is it that > justice is trampling underfoot? Why, it is avarice and envy, the > gods of the merchants. The Dutch knew that the unrestrained pursuit > of profit posed serious threats to the soul of the nation."
And it was the free-market with the least regulations which made the Netherlands a very prosperous country.... :-) Pavol -- _______________________________________________________________ [[email protected]] [http://trip.sk/wilder/] [talker: ttt.sk 5678]
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