I mean do we not all secretly wish we had sudsizized and saved leaded gasoline, polyester jump suits, polio and wooden teeth for posterity?

Should we have subsidized Nazi death camps? Did not closing them down cost jobs???

Where would we be without the penny subsidy without which our government mint could not afford the 3-4 cents it costs to make the 1 cent piece of currency no one even wants ?

Take this call for a media bailout. Almost every such article is built around a story line that the problem with media is too concentrated and monopolized *cough* Rupert Murdoch *cough*.

This is hilarious. The problem the print media in particular is facing is not that they are being monopolized, but in fact that their traditional monopoly is in the process of being broken. Their problem is not too little competition but too much. Their problem is not high barriers to entry but quite low ones. All courtesy of the Internet.

You can tell that the fact of too much competition (rather than too little) is their true concern the moment they pull out licensing. Licensing in every industry in which it exists is an age-old guild tactic to limit competition. License boards, often enforced by the government but controlled by the incumbents in the industry, primarily exist to limit new competition, and thereby keep prices and salaries high and protect current market shares. License boards will claim to be all about the consumer and quality, but in fact they are a media tool to enforce a monopoly. Seriously, do you see any consumers of media demanding such limits?