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Re: a dumb query? pls humor me



Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>:
>  Steve Lamb wrote:
> 
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neither is
> > any
> >> other economic and political model combination.  Correlation without
> > causation.
> > 
> >     They're not mutually exclusive because they are the same.  Personal
> > liberty is economic liberty!  You can't have one without the other.  Any
> > political movement which curtails economic liberty is directly
> > curtailing personal liberty.
> 
>  We'll see if you keep saying that next time you need an operation not
>  covered by private health insurance.

Uh huh.  Move to Canada.  Need a hip replacemnt?  Six to eighteen
months wait, tops.  Catscan?  A year and a half, assuming you don't
get bumped by higher priority cases.

You're dreaming.

Socialism doesn't work for the guy on the street.


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