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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (166052)	7/30/2001 6:47:55 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

America shows where Capitalism evolved and where it has lead what that means to distributing opportunity. So what do you suggest that will have a better outcome than Capitalism? No it won't be today and it might not come for a generation but what do your think will work any better any sooner. My opinion is based on seeing what is and what can be. You might be a lot less judge-mental if you could see what is good and working along with all you see wrong. If you spent more time looking for good instead of who is to blame for all you can see is wrong you might have a more balanced view. tom watson tosiwmee

To: puborectalis who wrote (166052)	7/30/2001 7:16:26 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769667

Ah, but he doesn't live in a 3rd world nation. And there may just be a reason for that. Listen CLOSELY now: The nation he lives in is a capitalist nation that uses the power of free markets to attain prosperity. There are a few other things that help, like public subsidization of education. But democracy, guaranteed constitutional rights, and capitalism do a lot of it. There are other large nations with lots of resources that don't nearly as well. Russia, say. And there are smaller nations with similar systems that do do well. Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, New Zealand,... It is not his fault or mine that 3rd world nations refuse to adopt good economic and governmental systems. But we're not going to throw it away to please you. Oh, and you cannot achieve the position the US has overnight. We've been at this for almost 400 years.