Re: OT : so this is what our troops are dying for in Afghanistan !

Jim Thompson wrote:
On 17 Aug 2006 13:19:19 +0200, David Brown
<david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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All things in moderation - that's all I'm really saying. Profits are fine - "excessive" profits are not.

Who gets to decide the definition of "excessive"?


Authorities answerable to the people (i.e., someone voted into office), I suppose. Lines are never easy to draw, and I don't have any good ideas what the should be. But that doesn't mean there should be no lines at all.

As you have said, economies that are not capitalist based are not nearly as successful or happy for their people (although they can as good or better in some ways - compare Cuba's health system with the USA's).
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You spend too much time reading questionable media sources, rather
than having ANY first-hand knowledge.

Wonder why it is that every Cuban that can manage escapes to Florida?
It's not wealthy people, it's the poor.


Since when does health care equate to quality of life? It's part of it, to be sure, but I was (as I said) only picking a single example. The average health care in America is of similar standard to that in Cuba, despite costing around 20 times as much - the details can be found on endless numbers of official reports from all sorts of sources. But obviously there are many other things that are better in the USA even for illegal immigrant Cubans - average pay being a good example. And it's a great exaggeration to say every Cuban wants to move to Florida - there are many who do, but most prefer to stay where they are.


Dictators always live nicely. Thompson for dictator, Brown for
garbage collector ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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