That's the problem with this line of thinking... there are no open markets. Haven't effectively had them since Milton Freedman left graduate school if indeed they ever existed. We won't see them in our lifetimes. It is a mute point and a fallacious direction of thinking. Those who have tried in the past 20 years to steer us fractionally in the direction of so-called open markets have been major contributors to the economic difficulties the US now faces... Eric Goldstein -- On 8/20/08, eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (snipped) > They're poor already... and an open market would force > them to compete even harder with the same disatvantages, only to become more > of a burden on the state. --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list