Kurt Ullman wrote:
> In article ,
>  "John W. Kennedy"  wrote:
> 
>> Kurt Ullman wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>>  "John W. Kennedy"  wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> If free enterprise had the magical powers
frequently ascribed to it, we 
>>>>>> would all be running computers with decent
operating systems, most 
>>>>>> prime-time television would at least approach the
quality of "Babylon 
>>>>>> 5", and an engineering degree would be a
strong predictor of a better 
>>>>>> income than an MBA.
>>>>>          Well that explains that.
>>>> I think so, yes.
>>>   Actually not, but that is more my fault from ODing on allergy meds 
>>> earlier. Free enterprise does not promise nor has it ever promised the 
>>> best of everything.
>> Unfortunately, rightists (more editorial-writers, bloggers, and, from 
>> time to time, novelists than actual politicians) make that promise on 
>> its behalf.
>>
> 
>    Just as the opposite of the rigthtists,  who tell all will be well if 
> government runs the place.

Except that they don't. What they /do/ tend to say is that when the rich 
and powerful have screwed up the system and tilted the playing field, a 
free government is the last hope of free men for justice without war.

Branch Rickey (and good for him!) freed a handful of black Americans. 
LBJ and (by an astounding historic irony) a Democratic Congress freed 
millions.

(This is, of course, especially true in the world since Dodge v Ford, 
which has made corporate greed a legal and moral duty.)

>      And a government run system would have changed this how?

The BBC did a pretty good job for decades.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"Though a Rothschild you may be
In your own capacity,
     As a Company you've come to utter sorrow--
But the Liquidators say,
'Never mind--you needn't pay,'
     So you start another company to-morrow!"
   -- Sir William S. Gilbert.  "Utopia Limited"
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