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Free markets work as "Life Finds a Way"

Listener: Jake
Category: General
Date: 14 Mar 2008
Time: 18:35:47 -0700
Remote Name: 70.244.139.98

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Ha! You were just talking about microlenders and the possibility of the gov't competing with them, effectively putting them out of business. You analysis was that the presence of the microlender was actually evidence that the market works...... [It was from this story.]

To piggy-back off of what we were talking about in the email exchange below, all of this reminds me of a line from the movie Jurassic Park I or II, when one of the scientists gets to the island and is incredulous about how the dinosaurs (which were bioengineered to be infertile) had managed to reproduce and thrive on their own, without the guiding hand of the scientists. The reply from another scientist was:

"Life finds a way."
And as you and I both know, so does the market.

Best,
Jake

Pratt responds:

You'd be hard pressed to convince many otherwise good citizens and businessmen of this. They seem to think, even at the local level, that without local political leaders setting a "growth" agenda, we'd somehow starve. What we need are government leaders who work to keep government out of the way and out of our pockets so that individuals can innovate, build and prosper.

I'm deeply troubled that even local business people who are pro-American and free market, turn into Socialists when it comes to local government and public schools. This will be the end of us all at some point if it continues unabated.