Stock Market, Deficit and a Tax Hike

Did anyone else notice the ironic spectacle of a bunch of free-market, risk-taking, get the government-off-our-backs Wall Streeters standing around waiting for a government official (who is also a free marketeer) to tell them what the government will do to rescue the stock market gamblers from their folly?

Reagan might just be the only person over the age of 10 who believes that there is such a thing as a free market, that business types really want one, and that it would work like the ivory tower theorists claim even if it existed.

C’mon, what the gluttons who run big business mean by a “free market” is a government protected and supported market in which they are allowed to operate freely.

DAVID J. SIMMONS

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