LFC was: Any Rand

[Otto]

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Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: Any Rand


> Ayn Rand> "A fully free, capitalist system has not yet existed anywhere."
>
> Otto> What was the political & economical system America in 1963?
Socialism?
>
> I appreciate your sarcasm, Otto, really I do. And I'm no fan of Ayn Rand
> (ever read _Two Girls Fat and Thin_? yeah, well). But I've heard Noam
> Chomsky talk about laissez faire being absent from the US brand of
> capitalism too.  According to the definition (cited below), it "opposes
> governmental involvement in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary
> for the maintenance of  peace and property rights."  We all know the US
> government has its hand in the economy way beyond the minimum necessary
(not
> to mention anything at all about peace).  I don't know how much taxpayer
> money has been spent bailing corporations out of debt and bankruptcy, but
> it's way too much for it to be considered laissez faire.  We're more about
> corporate welfare than we are about laissez faire capitalism.
>

LFC is a hoax, it inevitably turns into monopolist structures and corporate
welfare after some time.

Someone has subscribed me to the Illuminati.Org and I have received this
mail today:

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This invitation is at the request of someone who cares about you
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Surfing around there a little bit I've found this:
"(...) we hold true that laissez-faire capitalism, a system in which all
property is privately owned, is the only just economic system which can
guarantee the happiness of the individual, as it alone recognizes the rights
of each individual including property rights."
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I must admit that I more believe in the Native American's way that the Earth
is our mother and your mother cannot be your property.

Otto

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