Re: basic Income

1998-09-05 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Ed: Thanks for reading my proposal and commenting. Ed said: If the objective is to transfer income from the haves to the have nots, I don't understand why it can't be done through the tax system. Any parent without an income could be given a basic credit, hence a "refund", of $15,000,

Re: Question: Was there ever a Yugoslavia?

1998-09-05 Thread Jay Hanson
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I keep seeing on The History Channel that cretin Reagan looking at the Berlin Wall, and declaming: "Tear Down That Wall!", and I keep thinking maybe things would be better today if that wall had taken a few more years to be dismantled in a more

Re Basic Income

1998-09-05 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Ed; Just a small continuation of my last post in which I argued that: In summing up this lengthy rebuttal, I have had to do some soul searching about my concepts. Basically, I believe people come before profit and that people are more important than profit. We could still have Capital,

A little Common Sense goes a long way

1998-09-05 Thread Thomas Lunde
I am posting this letter which was put out on an attachment on another list to show you the difference between rhetoric and reality. The Common Sense Revolution of our neo con Premier who got elected on the concept of giving a tax break to Ontarians by managing the budget from the point of view

The Second Shoe

1998-09-05 Thread Tom Walker
Between February and April of this year David Croteau of Virginia Commonwealth University conducted a survey of Washington, D.C. based journalists. His report on that survey is on the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) website: http://www.fair.org/reports/journalist-survey.html The

Re: Question: Was there ever a Yugoslavia?

1998-09-05 Thread Ed Weick
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I keep seeing on The History Channel that cretin Reagan looking at the Berlin Wall, and declaming: "Tear Down That Wall!", and I keep thinking maybe things would be better today if that wall had taken a few more years to be dismantled in a more

Re: The Second Shoe (and its lost soul)

1998-09-05 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Tom Walker wrote: [snip] Underlying this almost instantaneous decay of the system has been the slow erosion of morally defensible (traditionalist) structures of individual motivations. As Habermas argued, "Bourgeois culture as a whole was never able to reproduce itself from itself. It was

Re: collapse defined

1998-09-05 Thread tom abeles
Collapse in the mathematical sense can be clearly defined by the changing conditions in a set of equations. collapse in other areas lacks the clarity. And, in fact, seems to miss the one key ingrediaent "time". The dinasauers were wiped out in a catastrophe. What looks like a complete change

Re: Basic Income

1998-09-05 Thread Rob Robinson
Dear Thomas, Your digitalized debate with Ed Weick is classic. It's not only informative (where did you two *get* all that information!?), it's fun and concise and lively and thought-provoking and everything a good debate should be. The Lunde-Weick Exchange is right up there with Benny

Re: Re Basic Income

1998-09-05 Thread Rob Robinson
Thomas Lunde wrote the following quote from Mr. Krugman, economist at MIT: "subordinating the needs of finance to those of people" What a unique idea! It's a refreshing change after the '80's mantra "Greed Is Good, Greed Is God" popularized by Oliver's Gecko and the oil companies'

Re: Basic Income (Individuality and Society, Jan Szczepanski)

1998-09-05 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Durant wrote: The following article is a masterful response to pie-thinking (zero-sum mentality): Szczepanski, J. (1981). Individuality and society. Impact of science on society, 31(4), 461-466. any chance of a sum-up or abstract? [snip] I'll just try to quote from loving

Basic Income

1998-09-05 Thread Rob Robinson
Thomas Lunde wrote the following quote from Mr. Krugman, economist at MIT: "subordinating the needs of finance to those of people" What a unique idea! It's a refreshing change after the '80's mantra "Greed Is Good, Greed Is God" popularized by Oliver's Gecko and the oil companies'