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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (140843)7/14/2010 9:25:37 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (2) of 543149
 
John; Yglesias

If you privatize schools, the inequalities we now have in the system only get worse;

Privatizing schools creates inequalities? Privatizing garbage service makes more inequalities? So I looked up Yglesias as you suggested and barely started before I ran into a mention of Krugman;

Meanwhile, I think Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong (and again), and Tyler Cowen are really all saying the same thing about the prospects for re-inflating the economy by printing money and dropping it from helicopters.

Well sure if you stop the need to work and start dropping money from helicopters then we will all be equal I suppose. Except for someone will be able to pick up dollars faster than the old and feeble! You are urging an extreme idea of socialism - not like the socialistic States of Scandinavia but way more socialistic yet. I don't care who picks up my garbage; the government or a company but no way does one create more equality than the other. If you get your electricity from a private company there is more inequity than if you buy it from a PUD? ..........Now if you are saying take from the rich to pay the poor persons electrical needs - then booo hiss! There is nothing equitable about that at all. Hard woork and ambition needs to have a reward. There is also nothing capitalistic about what you suggest and it is guaranteed built in failure. The poor will waste the electricity - because it is subsidized.
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