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To: Lane3 who wrote (395)	6/5/2005 12:54:31 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541342

To play devil's advocate, I find those ideological debates completely useless outside parlor games. Just what is social democracy vs. the marketplace? Are there no markets in a social democracy? Are there no tax-funded government programs in a free market society? Big government and small government are also totally subjective terms, defined by the user as he sees fit. Big government is more than I think is right and small government is less than I really plan to spend. Ideological debates make more sense on purely philosophical issues like conformity/freedom, evangelism/tolerance, etc. I can see the sense behind those debates. But if a public policy issue can't be operationalized into a model that one can evaluate, it's a nonsensical question, IMHO.