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

From: MS (mikesc_at_iname.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:40:13 GMT

Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
> 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!

Life? Then you're for publically funded health care, and if not, why?

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