[CS-FSLUG] PD: Re: Christians taking action...

[Timothy Butler]

On Aug 19, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:

> As long as there is SOME government there can never be a truly free
> market in the Libertarian sense, that is true.  But the markets in the
> Democratic countries of the world are closer to it than anywhere else
> in the world.  Unless you look for countries with no government to
> speak of...like an open air market in the bush of Africa where the
> government (tribal leadership) provides no services and takes no
> taxes, i.e. no government.

	That's true, but in the case of Wal-Mart, it is fairly easy to point  
to a particular part of government that Wal-Mart is able to exploit  
to its benefit (Medicaid, etc.).

	-Tim




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