To: BGR who wrote (68189 ) 10/12/1999 4:26:00 PM From: Cynic 2005 Read Replies (3) | Respond to
BGR, some folks, eventually - for better or worse, will come to the realization that they are wrong even when they made decisions by exhaustively analyzing data. What it really means is that the socio-economic factors and data anlysis are no match for inherent 'feelings,' which drive emotions and there by the decisions. Data, as irrelevant as it might be in the ultimate analysis, is sought by several policy makers to guide fiscal policy, be it politically driven or socially driven, to assure public that they are doing the right thing. As it turns out, capitalism is not based on the presumption that everybody can be rich, which in fact, is the ideological backbone of socialism. Here, rich is defined by a state in which the subjects, i.e. the people, will have enough money to purchase the goods and services they need and desire without regard to the price they pay. If you look at it closely, as I have done, it is not different from socialism where the needs are met by the State and desires are non-existent (and hence can be treated as fulfilled).
