Brad, Your little funny about "the freedom to buy and sell ground-to-air personal anti-aircraft missiles" is so silly.
Remember " Do as you wish, but harm no-one". Perhaps programmers have difficulty remembering. I'm sure there is a regulation about that in our 75,000 pages. Shall we keep that one and get rid of the rest? If there is a law against the sale of green sport coats in the US, who would import them? They couldn't be sold. If we are not allowed to own Browning machine guns, why would anyone import them when they can't be sold? Well, they could be smuggled in - but they could be smuggled in now (and probably are). I want to get rid of the regulations paid for by the large fabric and clothes corporations, that increase the cost of clothes to the poor. I am anxious to do the same for a thousand other things, the increased cost of which bear most heavily on those with little money. But, even as people complain and are angry about the large corporations, they also support funding them with government regulations. It's a terrible example of poor logic, and drives any thought of a free society further away. My golly, these people are so naïve, they think that freedom is the right to vote. Maybe it's the poor State education that everyone receives. Education takes half the revenue of California and still they fail to produce educated people. They produce some trained people, but most are functionally illiterate. The answer, of course, is even more money - but it will make no difference. Next year they will want more. To remind you, let's say 6 teachers - each with a specialty - decided to run a private school with 6 classes, each with 35 students (the norm) - and be financed by the $7,000 per student that the system gets now. They would get close to $1.5 million each year. If they each doubled their salaries to $100,000, that would leave $900,000 to hire rooms and get texts and other supplies, much of which are not an annual expense. Maybe then we would get educated kids - kids who would be able to think logically about such issues as whether trade policy should be determined by people, or by our bribed representatives in Congress. Harry ******************************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 4:29 PM To: Christoph Reuss Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] "Survivor" -- FT PR vs. Human Nature (e-Bray?) Christoph Reuss wrote: > Harry Pollard wrote: > >>Thanks for reading carefully, Ray. I wish Chris did. > > > In the flood of Harry's postings with subject lines that are unrelated to > the msg content, I don't read each one. Now I went back in the archive > and saw that I actually had missed the posting where Harry stated that > <<If the tribe had looked to a longer life, I'm sure they would > never have let him go.>> > > Anyway, it's rather inconsistent that Harry makes this distinction > about a TV show but not about real-life issues such as FT. > If the world's people look to a longer life, I'm sure they would > never choose FT. (And real referendum votes in CH confirm this -- > in other places, people don't even have a choice..). > > Chris [snip] I think the closest thing to a free market any of us has seen may be e-Bray (as in the noise a donkey is supposed to make). e-Bray is not a bad place to buy Beenie Babies, but, for expensive stuff, e-Bray is like a magnet for frauds. And, of course, however perfect the "free exchange" is Harry-like on e-Bray, there's the infrastructure of e-Bray itself, which makes money on everything, no matter the outcome for individual buyers and sellers. Harry, how would your perfect markets get buy without any infrastructure, unless they are at most as sophisticated as the markets in the ungovernable territories of NorthEast Pakistan aparently are? I presume you would not be averse to the people having the freedom to buy and sell ground-to-air personal anti-aircraft missiles? -- Different topic: I saw the new biographical film about Louis Kahn today. People in India think he was a guru, and people in Bangaladesh think he is the father of their democracy. Unfortunately, some of his buildings in Balgaladesh looked to me like abstract architectural renderings of vailed women's faces - hopefully that is a wrong impression from the film. \brad mccormick --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 12/15/2003 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
