"ajames54" <ajames54@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 28, 3:34 pm, Vide...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Mar 28, 12:28 pm, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> what i find hilarious, outside of a couple of complete libertarian
>> cranks, where have all of the defenders of laissez-faire gone?
>> where is their outrage, why are they not publicly, and proudly
>> announcing their adherence to libertarian dogma, and renouncing their
>> investments in the markets.
>> after all, they to are the indirect beneficiaries of the bailouts.
>> you would think that they would be fleeing the markets, whilst
>> proclaiming their beliefs. i see none of that.
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> Actually I would call myself a free marketer.
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> I've expected this outcome for a couple years I am really surprised
> that it took this long to come about. Hell not only did I expect it,
> I've even bet on it. All those puts I bought that expired worthless I
> looked on as the cost of doing business, now that I should be hugely
> in the money the Fed steps in to screw me over.
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> Well in all honesty there haven't been that many puts ...because while
> I believe in a free market I know that we do not have one. Anyone who
> saw this coming could just as easily seen the response...
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> In my opinion is the stupid thing was all the morons defending the
> current system as though laissez-faire was what we had. To call what
> we have a free market is to indulge in Orwellian double speak of the
> first order.
Well, right. There hasn't been a laissez-faire system since prior to the
Industrial Revolution.
JG
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