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French Economy Implodes

MoreFreedom Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 3:00 PM
Those who believe in freedom, don't care for government enforced discrimination (whether during slavery, Jim Crow, or affirmative action). But they do support (like free speech) the freedom to associate or not (which is in the 1st amendment), which means that a Jewish/black hotel owner could turn away KKK for a convention in their hotel. But it also means people might stupidly discriminate on things other than merit. Your post confuses nepotism with discrimination. And it confuses the freedom of private institutions (like Harvard) to discriminate for their own reasons, one being that giving some degree of preference to children of alumni might result in more donated cash from the alumni.
MoreFreedom Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 3:02 PM
Those who love freedom believe that any anti-discrimination law, should only apply to government, not to private citizens. Anything else amounts to abridgement of our freedom to associate (and our freedom to not associate with those we have issues with).

As expected, at least in this corner, the French economy has started to implode. Service sector business activity is dropping at fastest rate since October 2011.

More importantly, the Markit Composite PMI sports the steepest rate of contraction since March 2009 with job losses accelerating at the fastest pace in 33 months and output plunging at the fastest rate in 42 months.

Key points:

Final Markit France Services Activity Index at 45.0 (49.2 in August), 11-month low.
Final Markit...

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