Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (5803)	5/19/2000 4:09:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Just between you and me - as a net payer [by a wide margin] of government revenues i have done my fair share of railing against socialist attitudes and tendencies ... at the same time, i have been among this canehjun breed of gringos a long time, and consider some aspects of what some would consider their 'socialism' to be simply civilised behaviour - for instance, universal access to health care ... not that it doesn't come with problems, like every other human endeavour.

To: epicure who wrote (5803)	5/19/2000 7:09:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

<<Kholt and Marcos are not pure socialists. They probably like a few "socialist" TYPE programs- as we all do. >> Ms. X, I don't want to seem unappreciative. It was super of you to stick up for Marcos and me. But it took a lot of work to get Jim S (where'd he go?) to accept me as a libertarian so I feel a need to defend my credentials. <g> I agree with you that almost everybody likes a few socialist-type programs, especially those that benefit them (which, of course, are not socialistic, merely fair). For the record, I fit in with the majority only if you consider the regulation of medications and the environment socialistic, which I don't. I consider them more akin to regulating interstate commerce. That's as close as I can get to approving of socialistic programs at the Federal level. Were it up to me, there would be no transfer payments from Uncle Sam to citizens and no Federal "insurance" programs. That would eliminate school loans, social security, and medicaid, to name some of the most popular. Marco can keep his socialized medicine. As e-Bill says, it's a question of who pays, and IMO, who pays should not be Uncle Sam. Which socialist-type programs to you support? Karen