Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 03:56:07 -0600
From: Sandi and Scott Spaeth <vespa-AT-mo.freei.net>
Subject: Re: Chuck0 quoted in Time



At 11:31 PM 12/7/99 -0500, Chuck0 wrote:
>Today I finally picked up copies of the new Newsweek and Time, to see
>what they had to say about Seattle and the anarchists involved. Needless
>to say, I was amused more than I was shocked.

What I can't understand, and having shown it to liberals, conservatives and
Marxists at work is that idiotic essay on the last page by Michael Kinsley. 
Essentially, he says that free trade is good, but you'd have to study economy
for years before you could understand why, but it's good, except when you lose
your job, but then it's still good because you can buy cheap sweaters (with
what money, he doesn't say).  This guy is seriously stupid.  I just don't get
it, there are some fairly smart people out there who believe whole-heartedly in
capitalism and free trade, some of them can even write in conversational
English, why didn't Time go to them?  It seems like hordes of "self-described"
economists have surfaced on internet discussion boards in the last week, and
while they're all wrong, for the most part they at least tried to be
convincing.  I think maybe this Kinsley fellow is really one of us and is
intentionally trying to make unfettered-marketers look bad.

cheers,
Scott
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