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To: Solon who wrote (12583)	5/10/2002 12:53:43 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Most private businesses are next to useless by any objective standards. Prove it. I used "objective" in order to contrast the kind of value that has essential import--broad-based and amenable to rational consensus--so as to contrast it with value which is merely personal and subjective. We're talking people here. Economics. All value is subjective. This is not to discredit subjective value; it is merely to indicate that much consumerism is objectively of dubious merit...and has appeal to a rather narrow base, and a capricious and callow consumer. I would guess that cosmetics would be a prime example of "useless" to you. Narrow base? Check with the women on this thread. Useless? Repeat previous step. Typical liberal BS. Big Daddy knows best. rescuing sleeping children from a burning house Tell us whether you think gov't agencies or private businesses made the following: the lumber in that house the plumbing the heating system the glass in the windows the locks on the doors the fabric in the bed linens and clothing ......... the steel in that fire truck the electronics in its radio the firehoses the rubber in its tires the tires themselves .......... Department of Labour Shut it down. Department of Education Inefficient, unnecessary fraud. Kill it. Department of Transportation Prime function seems to be stealing to money to buy and operate public transit systems that consist of largely empty trains and buses. Kill it. If train and bus companies cannot survive on their own, let them die. Environmental Protection Agency I'll buy the rope. Health and Human Services Ditto. Social Security Administration A Ponzi scheme. If you or I did it, we'd go to jail.