Re: The minimum wage was $8 an hour in 1968

From: Socialism is a Mental Disease (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:23:16 GMT

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:03:28 GMT, MS <mikesc@iname.com> wrote:
>
>Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:02:54 -0500, flick <flick@starband.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>Public education (as Bo has pointed out) - including
>>>state universities
>>>Roads
>>>Health research, public health, etc.
>>>Ag research
>>>Animal control
>>>Police, fire departments
>>>
>>>Just to name a few. So we are all recipients of
>>>government help. All of us. It's impossible not to be.
>>
>> The fact that we are dependent doesn't mean that we have to be. I'm
>> not arguing about what is, I'm arguing about what ought to be.
>>
>
>Then you're truly insane. Your ideal society would be a banana republic
>with an incredibly wide income distribution.
>

No, honey, I'm a very strong believer in a strong State able to
protect individual human rights, namely, life, liberty and property.
But that's it! 

-- 
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one
percent of the people may take away the rights of the other
forty-nine." -- Thomas Jefferson