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Boof on March 15, 2006 - 7:15am

If your world view says the market will solve all
problems it is heresy to admit to any problem. Australia's Special Broadcasting Service just ran a story on flex-fuel cars in Brazil, even pointing out many cars were made by GM's Australian subsidiary. The host asked why Australia can't implement such a program. Go back to the first sentence.

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step back on March 15, 2006 - 10:38am

Wasn't there something in the Government Constitution about not mixing religion in with good governance?

Yet every morning they gather in circles,
Hold hands
And rectite:

I pledge allegiance to the Unifying Words of Adam Smith,
And to the Invisible Hand for which he stands,
One Globalization under God,
Indivisible, with liberty and market solutions for all,
Amen.

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GreyZone on March 15, 2006 - 3:23pm

That gave me a good chuckle. It also reminded me, for some perverse reason, of this snippet of dialog from the movie Independence Day:

President Thomas Whitmore: What do you want us to do?
Captured Alien: Die. Die.

I keep seeing economists screaming Whitmore's question at the heavens as the world melts down around them with the universe laughingly playing the part of the captured alien.

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step back on March 15, 2006 - 5:49pm

And then of course, the Secret Service Agents pull out their whoopee do dad pistols and shoot the psychotic alien dead just as his manipulative mind control techniques are about to take over the President's brain. Will Smith swoops in, Jeff Goldblum activates his science-crunching mind, the virus is unleashed; and the world is once again saved.

If only the Secret Service of real life could shoot PO dead and could shoot Global Warming dead with their sex pistols.

No. My posting wasn't a joke (except for the part about the circled wagons and the hand holding). Watch the Senate Hearings on Oil Company Concentration and you will see the Pledge to the Ledge played out in real life. All the Senators and All the King's men believe that the Market Solution will for sure, put our Humpty Oil Genie back together again. No kidding.