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- From: kurt@eskimo.celestial.com (Kurt Cockrum)
- Subject: Re: government still at large (was Re: FDA still at large)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.180505.2817@eskimo.celestial.com>
- Keywords: FDA, unconstitutional illegal action,single-issue blindness
- Organization: >>> Eskimo North (206)-FOR-EVER <<<
- References: <1992Jul23.081405.3582@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1992Jul23.185038.3415@eskimo.celestial.com> <1992Jul24.063341.13871@apex.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:05:05 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Jul24.063341.13871@apex.com> chuckh@apex.com (Chuck Huffington) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.185038.3415@eskimo.celestial.com> kurt@eskimo.celestial.com (Kurt Cockrum) writes:
- >>Another thing I've never liked is the concept and apparent necessity of having
- >>to sell one's toil/time or the best part of one's life to others in order to
- >>stay alive (or the other leg of the so-called "free choice": starve), an
- >>inherently irreversible transaction. In other words, "work sucks".
- >
- >You would prefer that someone else toil and spend the best part of
- >their life so that you would not have to?
-
- This is such a pitiful rejoinder that, beyond this, I will not dignify it
- with a reply.
-
- >>I would have no problem if I could simply, whenever the need arose, quickly,
- >>and with a minimum of hassle, make a mutually agreeable win/win deal with
- >>somebody else to satisfy a need of theirs for their satisfying a need of mine.
- >>How this could be done without a "system" springing up, I have no idea.
- >>One thing is for certain -- I don't trust "systems".
- >
- >Thats called free market. If have a skill or product someone else needs
- >and he has something you need you both win. The problem arises when
- >a third party wants a piece of the action to support the public need
- >or those who will not support themselves.
-
- Can a "free market" exist in a closed society?
- The problems arise when meddlers and do-gooders get into the act, that I
- agree with.
-
- >I have no problem with support of those who can not support themselves.
- >But only on a private basis. The cost of govt programs is too great.
-
- Do you have a problem with panhandlers on the street? They are trying
- on a private basis to support themselves. Yet there are those who would
- make such acts illegal. It really sticks in some people's craw (usually
- some "hard-working" mean-spirited Pioneer Square boutique owner or feather
- merchant) to see somebody making a go of it panhandling (or trying to, at
- any rate), and they want to fuck it up.
- --
- kurt@grogatch.celestial.com (Kurt Cockrum)
-