On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:55:10 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:59:08 -0800, wrote:
Tell you what. Why don't you organize a self-sustaining not for profit
group that provides all of the goods and services that everyone needs.
If your prices are competetive and you provide a good customer
experience, the world will beat a path to your door, and the evil "for
profit corporations" will be driven out of business. What's so
difficult about that? By the way, please pay your employees well,
provide them with good benefits, and make sure all of your suppliers
are in the US.
How about we let gov't do what we pay it to do instead of continually
praying at the alter of unfettered capitalism.
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That is certainly not what I think the government should be doing, nor
did the founders of this country. Government as the ultimate panacea
for all ills is a relatively recent notion. It would be unaffordable
even if it were desirable.
Well, what exactly do you think gov't is supposed to do?? Not protect
its citizens? That's what public health, for example, is all about.
Ensure some standard education level? What exactly don't you like
about gov't?
The former Soviet Union created a culture where there was no penalty
for failure and no reward for success. It didn't work there and it
won't work anywhere else because it goes aginst human nature.
We are in no way comparable to the SU. Nobody is advocating anything
that's even 1/1000 of what happened there.
Tell you what. Why don't you organize a self-sustaining not for profit
group that provides all of the goods and services that everyone needs.
If your prices are competetive and you provide a good customer
experience, the world will beat a path to your door, and the evil "for
profit corporations" will be driven out of business. What's so
difficult about that? By the way, please pay your employees well,
provide them with good benefits, and make sure all of your suppliers
are in the US.
The answer is that you couldn't do it. Without a profit motive no one
would even try.
The answer is from a question that has no meaning.