| Many downtown areas in America are in a state of | | | | someone else get your way" and educationally change |
| decay, rundown with drugs, sleazy shops, prostitution | | | | the circumstances. Free-markets also solve such |
| and gangs. Some say much of this degradation is | | | | problems, but realize, it's not the entrepreneur's fault for |
| caused from too many bars, liquor stores and | | | | giving people what they want, rather it is the people's |
| unhealthy establishments. Is that really the case, or do | | | | issue for wanting what they shouldn't. People vote with |
| such businesses just thrive there because that is the | | | | their dollar. |
| kind of folks who live there and that's what they want. | | | | Now then, perhaps you see a tinge of |
| One individual concerned with the down town areas of | | | | entrepreneurialism or free-market thinking here in my |
| America and no particular city in general stated: "For | | | | comments, if so you would be spot on. You see, it is |
| example, a ghetto that begins to place limits on the | | | | my contention that just removing the so-called evil |
| number of liquor stores that may open, thus making | | | | businesses, as one might label them is not the only |
| room for produce stands and health food stores." | | | | answer. Communities need to unite, educate and work |
| Great idea, but people buy what they want or desire, | | | | together, when they don't nothing will help. So, the issue |
| not what they need. To fix that problem one must go | | | | is not to force rules or regulations, rather to |
| to the people and thru diplomacy; "the art of letting | | | | concentrate on fixing the problem from within. |