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		 Seriously, on the other hand, "the economy" was strong before the influx of millions of illegals and would be strong if they left--if it is allowed to function as a free market.  Free market innovations respond to economic crises more productively, and more durably, than government intervention.  An economy that evolves freely from the bottom up, as a result of competition between the numerous entrepeneurs is a thriving, growing, wealthy economy, as opposed to top-down, planned economies concocted by a small cadre of like minded rulers.  Mao's "let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend" was a wonderful idea, and a bottom-up way to evolve his society.  Unfortunately, he promptly executed any flower or thinker that competed with his one, top-down way. 
		
		
		
		
		
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