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<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Regardless of how one feels about regulation it is obvious that slavery</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">can not be part of a free market system. By definition. [...]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Fred</div></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks, Fred, for answering Damien for me.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>By freedom we do not mean license. We mean freedom from violence. So "Free" market efficiency differs from the type of "efficiency" that characterized bloodthirsty dictators like Stalin.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">spike wrote:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">True free markets assume every person equal and free.</div></blockquote></blockquote><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div> The curious thing is that communist soteriology, for example, or so I gather, makes the very same assumption.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div>Damien Broderick </div></blockquote><br></div><div>Equality for all and eternal life have always made good sales pitches. I prefer to trust someone who offers to treat me well (with courtesy, honesty and respect) NOW, rather than after a 5 year plan or New Deal. I liked Ron Paul because he advocated abolishing the IRS and the Federal Reserve Bank rather than a "stimulus package/deferred enormous enforced debt." </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Someone want to tell me again about how blind the justice system is?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Damien Broderick</div></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div>The motto on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court (and front page of U.S. law books) reads "Equal Justice Under Law." </div><div>However, if you look past that first page you discover the "corporate veil." These laws once deprived me of impartial justice since I could not afford to file a new case naming the statutory agent for corporation instead of the individuals who failed to pay me as agreed. The concept of collective ownership trumping individual rights needs reform! Rich white people in corporate gangs do not a free market make!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">An exception might be made on compassionate grounds for</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">transferring some wealth to those who are poor and unable to work, but</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">certainly not for transferring wealth from the workers to the rich and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">powerful.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Stathis Papaioannou</div></blockquote></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>In a free market we "transfer" wealth only by our own free choice, not by threat of violence.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Thomas</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="mailto:Thomas@ThomasOliver.net">Thomas@ThomasOliver.net</a></div> </div><br></body></html>