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from: John W. Kennedy
date: 2007-05-19 11:42:34
subject: Re: unions

Josh Hill wrote:
> He just believes, erroneously, that private enterprise will fix
> everything without economic or regulatory incentives to do so.

Emile Cammaerts said, "The first effect of not believing in God is to 
believe in anything...." (He was writing about G. K. Chesterton, and the 
quote is often attributed to the more famous writer.) One of those 
"anythings" is the pseudo-mystical belief in the power of private 
enterprise to fix any problem, never mind that it is both theoretically 
absurd and demonstrably contrary to history. (Pseudo-mystical belief in 
Evolution-with-a-capital-E is a similar phenomenon.)

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and 
Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. 
The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being 
corrected."
   -- G. K. Chesterton
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