To the editors:
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Much has been said lately about the virtues of free market economics, with eastern European developments being cited as major evidence. But where is my free market? I ask the question literally. If I want to sell something, where can I go to sell it? I need places like the Maxwell Street market, where I can have thousands of potential buyers instead of perhaps a hundred at very best if I hold a garage sale.
I find it truly difficult to believe that Larry Lund finds the present market “too strung out.” Anyone can see how crowded the market can be at times just from looking at the photo on your front page. I would really like to know when the last time was that Larry Lund came down to buy or sell at the market on Sunday. The present market is often far too crowded for those of us who are actually at it, yet this “expert” wants to crowd us still further because he thinks it will be exciting for us to be packed together like sardines.
The university wants to tear down the Maxworks Cooperative sometime between 2000 and 2030, in order to put up yet another parking lot or garage–in an era in which we are rapidly running out of fossil fuels and desperately need to reestablish viable public transportation.
