Thus said Shane Hathaway on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:56:54 MDT: > Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > Demanding the government intervene and try to accomplish something > > the free market is inherently better at (setting prices) is tempting > > but foolish. > > Agreed. The government can take steps to smooth rough times like this, > but it has relatively little power to control the free market.
The government should never take steps to ``smooth rought times'' as it only has the power to make things worse. The New Deal is one of the greatest example of governmental bungling America has ever seen. Let the market set the prices, that is what it is good at as Jonathan suggests. Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 3:14pm up 71 days, 23:52, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
