The reason why I posted this was just to illustrate how in a modern democratic society things can get jammed up simply because the parties do not see eye to eye.
In a "democratically planned economy" such real phenomena mean, that goods and services are simply not available. Okay, if there is no new government, then the state apparatus grinds on under existing rules, and there is a "caretaker government", but there is also a growing backlog of decisions which need to be taken. It is perhaps not accidental that in Eastern Europe, a majority prefers a social-democratic "mixed economy" with a state-regulated market and welfare provisions but also with private entrepreneurship. They've had the worst of both worlds. As children of Western welfare state capitalism, we are critical of our system, but things can be oh so much worse too. It might just be, that from the point of view of the whole history of capitalism, our own living conditions have been exceptionally favourable. Just a slightly heretical thought. Jurriaan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Scott Gassler" <[email protected]> To: "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The problem around Brussels > The fifth paragraph should have read "withholding sex." > > Actually, he did not keep the trains running on time. There have been > strikes that disrupted public transportation of all types. Fortunately, I > am > able to walk to work. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
