MODERATOR'S NOTE: Here we go again: a bad analogy supporting a bad policy. Jon's message seems to be "Don't think! Just react!" regarding heavy-handed market distortion by the Government. Where is the wisdom in such a policy? It sounds like a recipe for disaster.
---Sasan ------------------------------------------- Taking more time to reflect and deliberate is only rational if doing so is likely to result in a better decision. When a jet pilot has a flameout, the ejection system isn't available (because most passenger liners don't have them), the plane is descending rapidly toward rocky terrain, and the pilot is down to the last few seconds before he has to flare out, hopefully onto a strip that is a little less rough, it is too late for thought. One sometimes just has to act fast and hope one is lucky. As you may recall, I have been predicting this kind of thing for as long as we have known one another (and before that), but one of the things I have been predicting is that when the crunch comes, it will be sudden, unexpected (by those in charge), and there will be no time to think. As a result, responses that might have worked if done sooner won't work, we almost certainly won't get it right, and the only thing worse would be doing nothing and allowing panic to overwhelm us and bring down the world economy. I just hope all these constitutional works I have been scanning will survive in some readable form and will be helpful for some future generation that may re-emerge from the chaos. -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------- Constitution Society 2900 W Anderson Ln C-200-322, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------
