Hi folks Haven't a lot of europeans fairly recently moved from a corrupt form of command economy to a corrupt form of free market capitalism? You can find out what they are thinking quite easily on line. I think the still poor have one view and the enriched another and the en-poored yet another. Not sure about socialism, could ask the Swedes.
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "ARLO J BENSINGER JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality > [Platt] > Pirsig would no doubt approve the statement that the "poor are much better > off > under capitalism than socialism . . ." due to better access to Dynamic > Quality > in a free market society. More moral indeed! > > [Arlo] > Are the "poor" better or worse off because of public libraries? Would the > "poor" be better off if we shut down all the public libraries and > converted > them to Barnes and Nobles? > > Let's go back to the fabled pre-socialist era of the early 20th century. > Give > me some measures you would use to show me how the "poor" were better off > then? > Better income? Better health care? Better education? Contrast the workers > in > the Pullman camps to the factory workers at GM today. Tell me in what ways > the > Pullman laborers were "better off"? > > Since we favor the "free market", do you think people would be better off > with > a privatized police force than a socialized one? Why? Why is a socialized > police force better than a private one? > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
