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Malcolm Says:

Then again the biggest snots I have come across are technical people from Europe where their socia1ist systems cause them to be worshipped. They then come over here for a little bit more money to find themselves ridiculed for their attitude towards others and then find themselves treated like peaons. I guess the free market has some merit.

Maybe they're just snotty cultures (no names). Maybe they also have a free market orientation back home, but more social protections than in the US. I thought there was a good deal of pretension and stratification in US society also... Remember places like France were highly stratified before the Rev'n, and old habits die hard...

No one said it was right or fair, in my opinion it represents a free market failure but that’s life.

Doesn't that fatalistic position negate the entire purpose of this site?

skibum Says:

Noble idea, horrible execution.

That's my point. Assuming it was even executes int hat fashion by the admin, which is still moot, depending on the spin factor of that particular journalist at that paper that day.

DS,
What you’re saying makes little sense. My read is that the Clinton admin. turned on the green lights for the mortgage industry to come up with “creative” ways of letting more people with less income “afford” homes.

It worried me a little when MDs set themselves up purely as 'technical professionals' working in a sociological void. There are connections between the social and the medical completely overlooked in medical training, meaning there is a narrow technical focus only, similar to engineers. The last person I would look to for advice or insight on govt policy or social reform is an engineer, for instance. It's just rebuttable on so many layers I don't know where to begin.

Can anyone give me a web address with the forum rules? I am trying to figure out why one of my posts that contains no foul language is being cut from the postings while a shorter posting contains an explitive that I bleeped is showing up.

I guess the free market has some merit.

Only some?

Light humor.

Diff Sean
No one said it was right or fair, in my opinion it represents a free market failure but that’s life.
Doesn’t that fatalistic position negate the entire purpose of this site?

This is not a feel good about life site. The scenario unfolding is actually pretty fatalistic. Some think the free market is the one stop answer to everything so I gently point it out with a little sarcasm when its imperfections surface.