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To: TimF who wrote (10425)	1/30/2006 10:43:02 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541415

Oh, I definitely agree ours is a mixed system but calling it mixed as between socialism and capitalism is not only wrong it simply obscures. Publicly funded education, for instance, is simply that. Your use of the term "owns" is the clearest difference. There is no sense in which government "owns" education. It does take tax dollars and sends them to education institutions but its control over their activities is variable, at best. For instance, in New Jersey municipal governments have no control over the activities of the schools. There are certainly state regulations which structure the parameters of educational activity but to call that "owns" is, once again, to take a term from one arena of activity and apply it to another. Just far too much stretching.