Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Blindly Destructive Hand Of The Free Marketplace


Coupled with an unwavering and blind faith in our choice from all of those One True Gods
The blind hand of the marketplace unerringly creates optimal economic solutions
Thus, toxic emissions from our vehicles should not be saddled with artificial taxes
But weapons producers can increase demand through promotion of phony bogeymen
Given our love of exotic hardwoods, loggers quite naturally clear cut and sell them all

Pure supply and demand is always superior to meddling government social interventions
Strictly for-profit healthcare will provide all the medical services the old, sick & poor really need
If it is cheaper to bulldoze cropland than to redevelop strip malls, that alone makes it proper
Exterminating predators in competition for our domestic cattle is natural to market economics

Quite naturally, social costs cannot be found on the ledgers of brave entrepreneurs
Nobody profits from forests quietly filtering drinking water, so their rate of return is zero
Producers need not pay for problems their contaminated dust brings to far off lands
Making coal clean is inefficient and costs the consumer more, so it is to be avoided

Air and water are free goods and pollution controls are simply taxes, not investments
Capitalists will always be rewarded for reducing prices through slashing labor costs
If the Chinese will pay $600/oz, starving tribesman will sell all the ivory they can gun down
Factory trawlers can rob an old african fishing village of its living in the name of globalism

Short-term crop increases justify the overuse of fossil water and costly, dangerous chemicals
It is merely simpleminded idealism to hope for economic self-interest to be tempered with altruism
Our financials contain no long-term debt reflecting unsustainable resource usage
I can use my 300 hp SUV solely as an air-conditioner because the gas is all I need to pay for

Why add costly insulation to my home when energy costs less the more that I use
Neither the producer nor the consumer has any economic incentive to recycle
Laissez-faire allows prices to rise until scarce goods are simply driven to extinction
A dirt-poor consumer lacks incentive to drive producers towards sustainable practices

Government income transfers are an unnatural artifact which corrupt a pure economy
Hiring illegal immigrants at a fraction of market rate is rational economic behavior
Using a cheap, unregulated foreign food ingredients yields a clever competitive advantage
Shifting production overseas saves costs and justifiably brings executives great rewards

A large, poor, uneducated, young workforce benefits producers of consumer goods
Realistically, pension plans make no business sense and are to be eliminated via bankruptcy
Citizens should pay their own way in free retirement and healthcare marketplaces
Tying electablility to fundraising neatly marries entrepreneurship with politics

Certainly, we can rely on supply and demand curves to intersect at sustainable catch levels
We reflect with pride on our pollution reduction, having exported all of our factories
A no-strings bailout of the Too-Big-To-Fail will produce a blossoming of industrial self-regulation
We will simply let the marketplace test the survivability of these so-called endangered species

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