>It's no secret which way I come down--I am a card-carrying
>neoliberal, after all. Let free trade and investment rip, watch
>wealth accumulate, hope that sweet commerce creates softer forms of
>rule, and get ready for the next turn of the political wheel which
>will make movement toward social democracy possible in a generation
>or so.
I have a poetic answer to the Pareto Optimality fetishist:
***** Choose
The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting.
Choose: For we meet by one or the other.
Carl Sandburg *****
Yoshie