Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
And in those cases that you so eloquently pointed out: a service provider fails to provide sufficently for the demand (government controled or otherwise)...those doing the demanding go elsewhere (as they did to the blackmarket in russia)....hence its still econmoics 101 hard at work.

Its the difference between theory and reality.
You realize that the "black market" in a socialist system is capitalism. Capitalism that exists because the socialist system fails the customer!