Re: OT : so this is what our troops are dying for in Afghanistan !
- From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:12:00 -0700
On 9 Aug 2006 11:33:47 +0200, David Brown
<david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is a big difference between a government and a privately owned
corporation. When a government gets more money (assuming, of course,
that it's a reasonably honest and competent government), the money goes
to the good of everyone in the country. When a giant corporation makes
more profit, most of it goes to a few immensely rich people.
That could be rephrased: when government gets more money, it finds
ways to spend it on politically-correct projects that are as likely to
hurt as to help. When corporations make more profit, they invest it in
things that they feel will increase future productivity. Without
"profit" in corporations and individual wealth, there would be no
private-sector investment, and you can't run a decent country with
everybody working for the government; it's been tried.
John
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