tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33702370.post481161833667698422..comments2023-09-16T05:32:26.647-05:00Comments on Satellite Sky: Is Market Fundamentalism the Problem?OkieLawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071917464425173379noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33702370.post-39953667655861086832008-02-02T16:13:00.000-06:002008-02-02T16:13:00.000-06:00Anonymous:Your thinking that "it is always the fau...Anonymous:<BR/><BR/>Your thinking that "it is <I>always</I> the fault of government is the epitome of Market Fundamentalism. (It's not wrong to <I>offer</I> the bribe, only to <I>accept</I> it?)<BR/><BR/>Even Libertarians think that the government ought to intervene to prevent fraud. Well, that encompasses a <I>whole lot</I> of government regulation.OkieLawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17071917464425173379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33702370.post-1405740439600460522008-02-02T08:34:00.000-06:002008-02-02T08:34:00.000-06:00Some pretty sloppy thinking mixed with some good i...Some pretty sloppy thinking mixed with some good ideas. Any time a government official is bribed or otherwise illegally involved with somebody in the private sector, it is a failure of government, not the market! The whole point of limited government is to limit these opportunities and minimize negative consequences of government intervention. Government is no better, and usually worse at Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33702370.post-2851877325940035162007-01-30T19:24:00.000-06:002007-01-30T19:24:00.000-06:00Okie Lawyer,
May I add my Amen! to Brad's. I'm g...Okie Lawyer,<br /><br />May I add my Amen! to Brad's. I'm glad I linked over and read your post. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33702370.post-46325313367690442312007-01-29T15:04:00.000-06:002007-01-29T15:04:00.000-06:00I bought grapes for sale at Safeway for $.99 a pou...I bought grapes for sale at Safeway for $.99 a pound. Same thing with cherries. Both came from Chile. Now exactly how can the local farmers (and I live in an area that is the country's major supplier of sweet cherries) compete with prices like that? Cherries in season here are $2.99. It's not the farmers' greed that causes those prices. They have to pay a certain rate for labor and there are lotsTerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13382050215676302342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33702370.post-23396458296266644202007-01-29T13:40:00.000-06:002007-01-29T13:40:00.000-06:00Amen!
(that wasn't too fundamentalist of me to sa...Amen!<br /><br />(that wasn't too fundamentalist of me to say that was it?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com