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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.212939.25144@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Nov13.181714.1835@dcatlas.dot.gov> <BzzID0.1zC@fc.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:29:39 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- chuckc@fc.hp.com (Chuck Cairns) writes:
-
- >Joe Trott (joet@dcatlas.dot.gov) wrote:
- >:
- >: NO! Not supply and demand; you are unfortunately paying for the result of
- .
- .
- .
- > You have it exactly backwards. If dumping is allowed to go
- .
- .
- .
- >
- I did send my reply to this portion of your post through email. Paraphrasing,
- on a MICROeconomic level, a "forceless" "solution" is next to impossible,
- however on a MACROeconomic level, as I said, what goes around comes around,
- with no way that I see to avoid it. It just takes a little while sometimes;
- unfortunately longer than some people are willing to wait.
-
- As to this part...
- >PF: (Post Flame :-) )
- >> In the U.S. now, rather than act to secure individual rights (the sole
- >> purpose for which it was chartered), the government "works" by granting
- >What Absolute Poppycock!!! SOLE reason ... !?
-
- >Preamble US Constitution: (note "promote the general Welfare")
-
- The Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, was the charter for
- our government. At the risk of paraphrasing (this from memory), it reads in
- part: We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal;
- that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that
- among these rights are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; to secure
- these rights, governments are instituted among men..." That last part says it
- all, "to secure these rights...". I don't believe our Founding Fathers were
- so naive as to believe that _all_ governments were formed for that purpose,
- but *ours* *was*. The Constitution is a "how-to" manual, very good and
- useful, but meaningless unless it is interpreted in the light of the goal(s)
- it was meant to achieve. You would not try to learn Microsoft Word by
- reading a manual for WordPerfect; your and the former manual's goals aren't
- the same.
-
- For those who are interested in a more in-depth, intellectual treatment of
- what true capitalism is, and how our system deviates and is deviating from
- it, I would suggest _Capitalism:_The_Unknown_Ideal_, part of the Ayn Rand
- Library, and likely to be found with her other books in the philosophy
- section of your local bookstore. It is a collection of essays, bearing on
- reality, not mere philosophizing; it includes at least one by Alan Greenspan,
- though it's been too long since I read it for me to remember other authors'
- names.
-
- -JTT
-