Re: The long and short of it

[Tom Walker]

That would be called democracy. Can't have any of that.   Arthur Cordell wrote, What government could/should do is to support the discussion of alternate scenarios of where the economy/society is and where it could be going and what are costs/tradeoffs of doing something/nothing.   arthur -----Original Message----- From: Tom Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:37 PM To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The long and short of it The great weakness of the left, IMHO, is that they habitually think in terms of "the government should do this... the government should do that..." as if any government ever would do what it should even if it could. One is better off to start with the assumption that the government WON'T do something that it would be "a good idea" for it to do. This doesn't mean abandoning making policy demands or suggestions. What it means is using such proposals for the purpose of bringing an issue to the attention of a larger public audience, rather than expecting consummation from the state.