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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2493361, member: 71723&quot;]As was mine, with the exception of the artificial emphasis on the environmental piece. My degree was in 1977 when the &quot;Greens&quot; were the lunatic fringe. I kind of still see them thusly. I believe government has gotten out of the &quot;stoking economic growth&quot; business at exactly the wrong time. As for innovation, every attempt to interfere with its natural progression is almost always a very bad thing. Align the incentives the right way and stand back. Apple didn&#039;t become the world&#039;s richest corporation with a government handout, but it did almost fail without a &quot;subsidy&quot; from Microsoft while Steve Jobs was making cube computers and animated films. Reliance on so-called (actually MIS-called) free markets only works if you want to smack down M&amp;A activity. M&amp;A is the natural enemy of market economics. Long live TR. &quot;Bully!&quot; Trust busting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Free market? If only we had one. It&#039;s ALL socialism, corporate or individual. I&#039;d rather kill the corporate kind. I&#039;ve known farmers are actually Defense Contractors all my life. Or maybe diplomats at State?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sitting on Amtrak in El Paso, TX looking into Ciudad Juarez right now. I can see what works and what doesn&#039;t from here. They have a more free unstimulated market than El Paso does for sure. i don&#039;t do quasi-religious worship of &quot;tough love&quot; economics that Austrian Schoolers worship at the altar of. If we don&#039;t all do somewhat well, eventually no one does. Juarez proves that. If there&#039;s no &quot;floor&quot; all there is is &quot;hole&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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