35) Regulation: Cause not cure
The Art of the Possible
by Roderick Long
"The bailout is just diverting resources from the productive poor and
middle-class to the failed rich. ... The only good effect such a
bailout could possibly have (at least if you prefer costly boondoggles
without piles of dead bodies to costly boondoggles with them) is if it
convinced the warmongers that they just can't afford a global war on
terror right now -- but there's no sign that they're being convinced
of anything of the sort." (10/10/08)