[banjo joe]

From the piece: The ILLEGALS drove down the price for installing tile by more than 60 percent. Of course they were stealing supplies from their employers during the week and using them on their "side jobs," thus getting a leg up on me along with the fact that they didn't pay state licensing fees or bonding and insurance. ...

Some would say that's the free market at work... tough.

The guy makes other very good points, such as "...our elected representatives represent illegals, not us".

[Kozak]

Some would say that's the free market at work... tough.

Oh so it's "free market" to ignore all laws and undercut your legitimate competitors and drive them out of buisness? Guess I'll go into business with a crew of slaves, then I can undercut the guys hiring the illegals.

[Kozak]

Read a little history.
In the early Roman Republic only landowning citizens were allowed to fight in the legions. these were almost exclusively owners of small family farms. Over time as the Republic grew towards empire, and the wars became longer and more distant, as levies of soldiers were unable to serve and maintain their farms. The reward of the citizen Legionaries was to return home to ruined farms, in debt which were then bought up by the wealthy Patricians. They then farmed them with the slaves captured by the same Legionaries they now displaced. Those free citizens not yet ruined were forced to compete in the “free market” with the slave run estates, forcing even more into ruin. The displaced freeman, then congregated in Rome as mobs of the unemployed, where they received the free grain ration. The “bread” part of the program of “bread and circuses”. Does this pattern ring a bell?

“What form of government have we?”

“A Republic, if we can keep it.”
Benjamin Franklin

[marktwain]

Vin is a committed liberterian. But, you cannot have liberterianism without the rule of law.