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...everyone agrees. There is still a basic free-market argument that business has no business in anything but making money--which of itself will provide plenty of social benefits. One who has made that point for decades is the Nobel prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. Says he: "It was a very fashionable topic some 20 years ago, and then it sort of died down; all of a sudden it has become very fashionable again. I think it is all rhetoric...
...have thought this idea was on its way to becoming bipartisan reality. After all, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros had already proposed that the nation's 3 million public-housing residents be given vouchers to spend where they please on rent. And how could Dole's fellow free-market Republicans object to housing vouchers--a system that relies on the market, not government, to determine how and where poor people live, a system first instituted by Presidents Nixon and Ford and strongly supported by Reagan...
...least they ought to have the decency to keep it to themselves. Even if I did care, of course, I wouldn't challenge the God-given right of American corporations to expend most of their energy breaking up and coming back together. This is, after all, the fabulous free-market dynamic that generates so much wealth for the executives involved, a process that must be taught in leading graduate schools of business as the Amoeba Principle...
...Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to acknowledge the playing of our national anthem. The United States does have a long distory of oppression, and oppression still goes on today, However, the American flag stands for much more than just oppression. Ironically, the stars and stripes also represent democracy and the free-market economy, two aspects of the United States that it seems Abdul-Rauf has no problems with. By refusing to acknowledge "The Star Spangled Banner," Abdul-Rauf is not only spitting in the face of the oppressors, but he is biting the hand that feeds...
...take his pension with him. Gingrich gave back "his kind of tilted-chin, inquisitive look," says Souder. To anyone familiar with the Speaker's facial English, this is something different from his jaw-set, get-on-with-it look. It meant he was listening. In Gingrich's free-market philosophy, the needs of business and workers shouldn't be so much at odds. Neither should the G.O.P. and the blue-collar voters it must hold. Says Souder: "He's trying to figure out how we get these blended together...