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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (12637)	5/10/2002 4:43:20 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

"You seem to be the sole liberal on the thread currently" I am not a liberal. I am simply not an extremist. I believe passionately in the free market, but I am disgusted with mass market religion. I believe in individual freedom and dignity, but I think these imply the need for a compassionate society which tempers competition with cooperation and voluntary sharing. I doubt that many of you feel all that differently than I in these matters. I have as many complaints about government as many here (leaving aside the fringe surfers). However, I believe that public and private productivity are of a fundamentally different character, and that "cheapness" is not a fair measurement of value when it comes to public need and necessity. I am comfortable criticising discrete elements of the public sector when it is done thoughtfully and without generalization, casual flippancy, or misleading characterizations against employees. I don't need any outside help. My positions are fairly mild, I would say. I have called it compassionate conservatism, but I suppose it could be called objective liberalism. The goal of Government should be to make itself obsolete. But like fields such as medicine and law, it seems to be notoriously incapable of pursuing this goal. <g>