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To: Doug R who wrote (466174)	9/28/2003 3:37:14 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"...California is a case study in how Mother Nature gets rid of the congenitally unfit, and since California has more than its fair share of congenitally-mutant Leftist philosophies, it is only natural that they suffer the most. Mises, writing extensively to show how Mother Nature actually works, showed conclusively that it is impossible to have successful socialist planning, and that to have a mixed economy of private and socialist enterprises is likewise impossible. And history proved Mises to be exactly right. So, what we are seeing today is just the QED of what he, and many others, already proved. And now California is just the latest and biggest bunch of childish morons to try and disprove the cold, hard, unpleasant fact that big-hearted socialism and large, please-save-the-children-and-everybody governments have not, cannot, and will not, ever, work. Ever. And now they are also just the latest and biggest bunch of morons that has to be shown, like a bunch of little retarded children, that trying to get socialism and overweening governments to work successfully is always the path to bankruptcy and ruination writ large..."

To: Doug R who wrote (466174)	9/28/2003 3:56:29 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

More than one of six working people is directly employed by a government of some kind. One sixth of the damn working population works for the government The Republicans were always enough of a presence to hold it down to some level where things COULD work out. But now it is the Republicans who are doing it, too, and not only more so, but also terribly so, horrifically so, nightmare-ishly so. I guess you and I can at least agree that 1 out of 6 is not a good ratio. It was considerably lower in the 50's, about 1/3 lower. Nearly everything government related was 1/3 lower. One good example is that in '46 non-teaching staff was 1.5 per 100 students, now it is 5.3 per 100 students. Hard to see how this is justified.