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HughBeaumont

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10. My candidate is Laissez-Faire economics.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2012, 10:14 AM

Jan 2012

I affectionately call it "Laissez-Fail".

Practiced for 31 years in it's purest form, it's been nothing but a wasteful and counterproductive detriment to 95% of the population, not to mention the world's environmental, educational and infrastructural systems.

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