Hi Arthur,
While having my first pot of tea and pipe of the day and perusing the
morning's Financial Times, Economist, The Independent, Daily Telegraph and
other worthy mouthpieces on the Net -- all pronouncing on their various
remedies for the present impasse -- and being rather irritated by
Christoph Reuss wrote:
[snip]
In a free market, safety corners are being cut over and over again to
save money. I already wrote on the Gotthard tunnel fire which happened
because a Belgian company thought it was smart to save a few bucks for
a truck driver and safety equipment. A couple of
At 12:48 15/12/01 +0100, you wrote:
(CR)
You see Keith, that's the problem with your UK-centrism: You observe that
the centralistic, Thatcherism/TurdWay-ruined UK public services are bad,
and from this you jump to the conclusion that public services *as such*
must be bad. Not so. Where's your
Keith,
Why is it that every variable EXCEPT population is discussed as having causal
connections to systemic breakdowns? Hospitals, schools, bridges, roads,
water/sewer, flooding of paved land...
I'm not negating the mis-masnagement the borrowing from future in every
sense. Scale DOES matter,
Keith's answer posted as my query did. We seem to agree.
Steve
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