Sheldon Richman
Speechless
Wisdom from the New York Times editorial board:
It was only government power that ended slavery and abolished Jim Crow, neither of which would have been eliminated by a purely free market.
Did an intelligent, educated person actually type those words? Did an editor actually approve them for publication? Can anyone in that place think straight?
It was only government power that created and sustained the institutions of slavery and Jim Crow, um, LAWS. They were preemptions of the free market, so how could it have abolished them?
Comment by Bill McGee on 28 May 2010:
Doesn’t the New York Times have a long, long history of blaming the “purely free market” for government crimes? What do these same geniuses have to say about the causes and cures for the Great Depression and the current economic malaise?