ten. From this blog I take that as a big compliment. ant : 16 Feb 2010 3:16:12pm Name calling, John. First sign of a lost argument. And as for the free market: there's the idea of the free market(which doesn't exist and never has, not even when they were selling beads from stalls in ancient Greece) and then there's downright, outright crime. That's what we're talking about here. Have a look at what happened in America, Britain and Iceland if you want a flavour of what went on and all under the umbrella of the brave new world of the far right so-called Ayn Randian free market. My other favourite is the so-called level playing field which also doesn't exist and never has. What they mean by a level playing field is a global free for all with every worker competing with the lowest paid so that wages sink lower and lower in a Darwinian race to the bottom. Rings a bell does it? Work Choices they called it here. Fortunately the unions here hadn't been completely gutted and were able to mount a spirited attack on it: the Americans aren't so lucky but I can tell you now I wouldn't like to be a politician of any brand in Iceland at the moment. The voters are really, really angry especially since all the bankers who plundered the treasury fled to London where they live in unprosecuted luxury. Apparently the British government used the terror laws to stop British money