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• Monday, December 31, 2007 09:31 AM

  I suspect all sorts of "free traders" and erstwhile "libertarians" are looking for a leader to protect them from the (seemingly inevitable) blowback ...

  the dark clouds forming over the housing market, mortgage scandals, trade deficits, etc.

  Yesterday's NYT "Week In Review" suggested the -- gasp -- inadequacies of "free trade" as a one-note cure-all chorus ...

  titled: The Free Market: A False Idol After All?

  Available over at commondreams (left sidebar of links, at the top) linked on my name ...

  As far as I can tell, a remarkable number of Americans seem to believe that material success really DOES connote god's approval ... (forget about all that camel/eye of needle jazz) ... much as many assume beauty is so MUCH MORE than skin deep and similary signified more than lucky genes... but I digress.... ditto, the reassurance and solidarity people feel towards others with good or at least similar tastes ... which often substitutes for actual well-founded values or opinions (often seen in the specious opinons of actors, musicians and artists )... but I digress ...

  Bloomberg seems to have an abundance of such "virtues" ... Glenn has done us all a great service in providing the "ammo" to shoot down this would be "savior" ...

  Maybe these would-be tycoons can get Donald Trump to give it a go.... If Guiliani can make it this far with HIS record, Trump may not be the non-starter he appears....

  Interesting times, indeed.

  —susan sunflower Read susan sunflower's other letters
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