On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:01:43 -0500, Michel Boucher
> wrote:

>
>Just as we require drivers to educate themselves in the proper
>manipulation of a large object which will hurtle at great speed, in order
>to avoid causing unnecessary injury (and by the way, that's another thing
>your taxes pay for and you can thank the gods for that), or crane
>operators so they learn not to drop things on top of us (you see where
>I'm going here?), there are massive changes which should be accompanied
>by a training seminar. But I don't think it's going to happen any time
>soon and governments of the dexter variety tend to leave matters like
>that to the appropriately named Invisible Hand.
>
>Steiglitz argues that the invisible hand often seems invisible because it
>in fact is not there.

the invisible hand is busy jerking off free-market conservatives.

your pal,
blake