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.

> To say otherwise seems to me to completely 
> misunderstand the concept. It is based on giving people what they 
> perceive they want, and what they are willing pay for, not necessarily 
> what others think is good for them. For or better or worse. You should 
> remember that it is the system that DID make B5 possible, and continues 
> to.

And the system that wantonly knifed "Crusade" in the back.


-- 
John W. Kennedy
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and 
Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. 
The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being 
corrected."
   -- G. K. Chesterton
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