On Monday 01 May 2006 20:01, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:51:56PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > > I think a community should provide its members with the basic > > necessities to have a human-like live and to have chance to improve > > it. This requires education, housing, social and physical security. > > I can understand that viewpoint, but I still dislike the premise that > they can be provided only be the government itself. If the government > must involve itself, I'd like to see it encouraging competition among > providers of these services, rather than siphon away citizen's money to > fund one huge provider that has no incentives to be efficient. You presumably live in the US. Become a thorn in your congressman's side. Be a persistent asshole about it if you don't get through to them at first. Unless they have an R by their name, they'll listen. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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