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   From: bstorm1@comcast.net   
      
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   >   
   > n Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:01:24 GMT, "Scott and/or Janet Storm"   
   >  wrote:   
      
      
   > >Markets don't reason, idiot. People reason.   
   > >   
   > Aha, Scott and/or Janet (what an unusual name), you are wrong on that.   
   > The absence of human irrationality is what makes the free market   
   > rational.   
   >   
      
   Market forces, like other natural phenomenon are neither rational nor   
   irrational. They can provide benefit to the people just as well as they can   
   reek havoc. But unlike other natural forces that are largely out of our   
   control, market and economic forces are a direct image and reflection of   
   human behavior. Therefore, unlike the weather, we as humans have the   
   ability, and what's more the responsibility to steer those forces in the   
   direction that provides the most benefit for the most people and causes the   
   least amount of harm.   
      
   Any idiot who believes that "market forces" carry some inherent benevolence   
   is either stupid, or a liar. Adam smith would vomit on what passes for   
   "comparative advantage" and "mutual benefit" in today's globalist fervor.   
      
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