Letters to the Editor
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Free market
Giuliani goes on and on about the wonders of the free market. Well, I'm not about to argue that the free market isn't the best basis on which to build a prosperous economy. But, like any system ever created, if it is adhered to too absolutely, significant problems are exposed. The trouble with so many of those who preach its wonders is that their devotion is so slavish, so blind, so absolute, that they can never acknowledge that there are areas where it isn't working quite right. In our current economy we are seeing far too many results that are wildly and irrationally out of balance (i.e. CEO salaries, the exploding gap between the very wealthiest and everyone else). Reliance on the free market must be balanced by an acknowledgement that not every result is a sacred revelation and a concern for the needs of those that its workings leave behind.