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On Trusting Free Market to Regulate Government

by: lightseeker

Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 22:15:36 PM CDT

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txag007 wrote a reply to my last blog  ( Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Incompetence Costs Us All ) to ask if I had no faith in the Free Market as a check on bloated government bureaucries. He concludes:

Thus, the profit margin you were so quick to criticize ends up being far less in the long run than the bloatedness that often is our government.

Several commenters had their say and made some good points. I occurs to me that I have never laid out my case against using the free market as a check on government. Simply stated the "free market can't be a check on government because not everything can be measured in dollars and cents, nor do we have the "free market" the writer seems to believe. Finally, as long as elections are financed by the corporations and individuals with the big bucks the smart marketeer will do what we expect marketeers to do: rig the game in his favor.

Let me explain below the fold.

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Theocrats, Bureaucrats and Policy: Why You Should Care....

by: lightseeker

Fri Mar 30, 2007 at 07:05:14 AM CDT

I blogged briefly on NPR's backgrounder and take down of  Monica Goodling. There is more to be said.

To her detractors, Goodling was an enforcer of political loyalty who was not squeamish about firings -- of interns or of senior officials.

"She forced many very talented, career people out of main Justice so she could replace them with junior people that were either loyal to the administration or would score her some points," said a former career Justice official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisal.



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