...of your response above? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122107632937220473.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Did you click on the link above? Are the writers of the article and the people they quoted racist fear mongers? -- "No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim." -W. Emerson Wright. ------ Kent Finnell From the Music City, USA

...power of the competitive market to render them ineffective. Prices just kept on falling. Do you know we actually had *deflation* in the latter part of the 19th Cent.! And this in the era of the so-called "Robber Barons" who supposedly had the power to charge whatever they wanted and to rape the public with exorbitant prices. Symbolic of the era, at one point the "notorious" Commodore Vanderbilt to supposedly drive his competitors out of ...

... which bear no relationship to actual reality. But that of course has been the problem with the masturbatory fantasy of socialism from the beginning. It's also worth noting that the two paradigms of evil "Robber Baron" capitalists - Rockefeller and Ford - made their fortunes by vastly increasing the supply of oil and automobiles respectively and at the same time drastically lowering the price, Rockefeller by 90%%. That in fact is what...

...> growth rate is proof positive" that we did. Indeed, the number of newspapers peaked out in 1913. What do newspapers have to do with free speech? What does that have to do with high growth rates? Since then "free speech" has slowly been replaced with propaganda by for and of the robber baron. Umm...earth to Brat, in China the ruling party completely controls the press and your beloved Internet is censored. Fred Weiss

Bret Cahill wrote: <snip> Since then "free speech" has slowly been replaced with propaganda by for and of the robber baron. Bret Cahill The propaganda *against* robber barons was the product also of a robber baron. I suppose you could exempt Hearst, but... should you? -- Les Cargill

...tax cut stagflation predicted to last for decades . . . . . . . I still am waiting for your response as to whether the USA had "free speech on economic issues" prior to the 1930's. According to you, our "high growth rate is proof positive" that we did. Indeed, the number of newspapers peaked out in 1913. Since then "free speech" has slowly been replaced with propaganda by for and of the robber baron. Bret Cahill

..."Laborers" in an industrial country today are only valuable for their intellectual skills. You cannot computerize gardening or bricklaying. . . . It was the *productive genius* of these men - these supposed "Robber Barons" - which made possible the greater efficiency of their operations - and it was economic freedom which enabled that productive genius to flourish and to produce great wealth (and which resulted in the ever...

... of steel in half). The "workers" would have done the same muscling around either way and as they have always done throughout the millenia. It was the *productive genius* of these men - these supposed "Robber Barons" - which made possible the greater efficiency of their operations - and it was economic freedom which enabled that productive genius to flourish and to produce great wealth (and which resulted in the ever rising ...

... have always done throughout the millenia. It was the *productive genius* of these men - these supposed "Robber Barons" - which made possible the greater efficiency of their operations - and it was economic freedom which enabled...comfort and status. Indeed, SFAIK, the very *idea* of efficiency really came to fruition with the Robber Barons. Before that, it meant "not being wasteful", frugality. Advances at the time were applied to...

... of steel in half). The "workers" would have done the same muscling around either way and as they have always done throughout the millenia. It was the *productive genius* of these men - these supposed "Robber Barons" - which made possible the greater efficiency of their operations - and it was economic freedom which enabled that productive genius to flourish and to produce great wealth (and which resulted in the ever rising standard of ...