Keith Hudson wrote:
> In view of my recent (and ongoing experience) with the NHS (National Health
> Service) (taking 10 months to diagnose and treat early-stage prostate
> cancer), an FW subscriber has suggested to me that I write a short essay on
> the organisation.
>
> I'm not able to do this at present because of lack of time. All I would say
> at this stage is that, like Education, Prisons, Social Services*,
> Agriculture and Transport -- all heavily centralised -- the NHS is now at
> the point of total collapse with no well-defined policies whatsoever.
What solution do you suggest ?
> *To divert, I'll mention that two of the most poignant problems of modern
> times -- child prostitution** and wife battering -- each involving scores
> of thousands of individuals at any one time
These are ultimately effects of the "free trade" policy that you have been
advocating on this list for years. Now that the sh-t hits the fan, you
complain about the Social Services' "inability".
> **And enlarging this subject just a little further, and on which more
> reliable figures are available, out of an estimated 500,000+ prostitutes in
> the country there are about 70,000 who are totally enslaved by mafia gangs
> which illegally import girls from poverty-struck central European countries
> on a variety of pretexts and then trap them permanently by threatening to
> kill members of their families back home. Yet again, this is another area
> which government policy and the police totally ignore, even though the
> location of these sorts of brothels are fully known.
Now you suddenly call for trade barriers. Tss tss...
Chris
P.S.: You didn't reply to my questions on "Corporate Democracy"... No answers
left?
