sci.energy.hydrogen

"Robert Sturgeon" wrote in message
news:strtc31r0q3565shkqthv0lun4gsg8oj1r@ ...
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:57:53 +0000 (UTC),
> EskWIRED@ wrote:
>
> (snips)
>
>>> It should be noted that only the marketplace can so
>>> efficiently allocate scarce resources. Politics never can.
>>> As seen earlier in this thread, when politics does interfere
>>> with the marketplace, the result is inevitably that the
>>> resource usage is distorted, and seldom in a Good Way.
>>
>>Yes, but we need some kind of overall supervision to prevent adverse
>>externalities, like pollution.
>
> Those are always used as excuses to interfere in the
> marketplace and make the results (most efficient use of
> resources) worse. If "they" could stifle themselves enough
> to keep their interference to the bare minimum necessary, I
> wouldn't mind so much. They never do. Politics comes into
> the equation. The lobbyists and special interests gin up
> reasonable sounding excuses; they bribe the politicians; and
> the marketplace be damned.

Damed straight. Damn the government for trying to stop employers from
working illegal immigrants so that they don't have to pay a fair wage. We
need more illegals to help them get richer while our quality of life erodes.