To: TimF who wrote (360666 ) 11/28/2007 6:35:01 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to Stossel is all over the board......equating sharing with lack of freedom bla bla bla. But the major example he relies on is the Plymouth Colony. The Colony had a common goal to share everything and to have enough to survive. Its Stossel's premise that because they shared that goal, survival was not possible. That the only way they could survive is impose property rights. Now that may well have been true for the Plymouth Colony. However, there is not nearly enough data to make that determination nor enough info as to what it was like when they were sharing a common goal. It would be the equivalent of me saying that the streets were cleaner when every one had a guaranteed health plan. It may be true that the streets were cleaner when there was a guaranteed health plan but its not clear there is a causal relationship simply by making the statement. However, you are all ready to buy into Stossel's contention hook, line and sinker. "The failure of Soviet communism is only the latest demonstration that freedom and property rights, not sharing, are essential to prosperity. The earliest European settlers in America had a dramatic demonstration of that lesson, but few people today know it.
