[MD] A bright note

[MarshaV]

How you going to stop the Giant, Platt?  Complain it to death?




At 08:53 AM 6/8/2009, you wrote:

>All:
>Elections in Europe show a continued shift to the political right -- an
>encouraging result to all who seek Dynamic freedom from statist welfare
>programs. Europeans are beginning to feel like Pirsig when he wrote,
>"God, I don't want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of
>social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality
>out." In other words, the state should reject SOM "systems thinking" and
>instead concentrate on each individual's uniqueness, encouraging her to
>be all she can be. A good start would be to break up the government's
>monopoly on education by permitting school vouchers.
>
>Some of the reactions to Nick's ideas here show how close-minded
>certain contributors can be. In fact, Victorian moral certainty has nothing
>on today's left-wing "progressives" whose answer to every social
>problem is more regulations, higher taxes and bigger government along
>with sanctioning such biological values as anything-goes-marriages,
>legalized drugs and public nudity.
>
>Fortunately in Europe such slouching to Gomorrah has been temporarily
>abated. The benefits of socialism have been proved less than
>advertised, which comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with human
>history.
>
>Platt
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