Jerry Pournelle writes, “It is probably irrelevant given the election results, but my remedy is simple: any company that is too large to be allowed to fail is too large, and ought to be subject to anti-trust regulation.”
Remember when the government actually used to attempt to break up behemoth corporations such as Bell Telephone, IBM, Microsoft and other business leviathans rather than prop them up, Weekend At Bernie’s style with taxpayer dollars? Hard to believe we’d look back on that period as more benign than today’s, but to paraphrase William Goldman, every election year you look back and realize that this year was the worst year in the history of the Federal government.
Where have you gone Senator Sherman? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you!
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