14 June 2007

Economics 101 - as envisioned by the Kansas State Board of Education*

Course synopsis: free markets are only truly free if they can be manipulated in the favour of American interests. Any manipulation of the markets that does not favour the USA is evil, bad and probably communist. For instance the billions of dollars poured into agricultural subsidies by our free market forces are simply a necessary step to protect the nation and God from evil doers but the billions of Euros poured into agricultural subsidies by those damned European socialists are just plain evil and must be eliminated if the US is to benefit! (See also: Econ 314 - "Tobacco subsidies, no bid defence contracts and the American Way"

*Note: I don't really mean to pick on Kansas but their continuing squabbles over teaching Creationism as "science" has proved that they can easily be manipulated by strong vested interests.

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