[MD] Unreality of Equality

[khaled Alkotob]

> [SA]
> Are we all agreeing on this one?  From reading what I wrote in the 
> last two
> Barbarian Attacks, the last (Nude) Barbarians & Hippies, and even 
> March's
> Unreality of Equality even Platt is in agreement with what khaled 
> pointed out
> as the "pay to play" action of this culture.
> 
> [Arlo]
> That the U.S. government has become an oligarchy, I would agree 
> with. That there
> are restrictions on the market that should be abolished, yes, I 
> agree with that
> as well. However, I think one thing has proven to be a "devastating 
> fiction",
> and that is a completely unregulated market would be best for 
> everyone. One
> needs only to look back to the 1890s to see what life was like for 
> most people
> before some government protection was instigated.
> 
> I remember listening to my grandfather (born 1900) tell of his 
> parents and
> growing up in a mining community. When miners were killed, the 
> "company" would
> drop the body off at the house, and that was that. Pay was barely 
> enough to
> exist. Injuries meant you didn't work, and that meant no pay, and so 
> your
> family went hungry. While this may be "jungle law", I think a 
> civilized society
> can do better.

As a newcomer, I did not get to read the grapes of wrath in High School
but just finished it recently. I know that Steinbeck had taken lots of
liberties with the story what these people went through was awful. I live
here in Central California's Valley where the latter half of the story
took place. Part of me wants to believe that mankind can't possibly be
that bad, the other part reminds that we owned slaves at one time.

So here are 2 questions to the collective.

1. Do you folks think that we learned these lessons, or do you feel that
as soon as the government oversight, EPA, FDA, USDA are gone, we will go
back to the same routine.

2. Lets say the FDA is gone, and some pharmaceutical Company is selling
something bad, does the mass consumer market has enough intellect to
realize the problem and let the public know about it through the Internet
and other means? I mean if we all woke up tomorrow and said "I want my
milk without any growth hormone in it, I wont buy it." Will every stick
not buy it forcing a change in the market or stupid is as stupid does.

Khaled