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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] And Messrs. Nixon and Reagan didn't veto them? Oh dear. I was under the distinct impression that their economic policies were the cornerstones of their rule. (Especially the latter.) So "Reaganomics" didn't actually exist because all the financial regulation of the US was done by the evil Dems during that time period, and Reagan had no control over what they were passing... News to me. But I digress. As to your accusations of me being a Marxist and having no knowledge of economics, I'm sure that Smith and Malthus would love you to do lunch and talk about economic ideas that are equally-out-to-lunch as Marx's. And don't say I have no knowledge of economics. From what I've seen over the last few years, your economic knowledge must have been culled from a book entitled "Reagan and God: The lost conversations between the Lord and His prophet of Economic Piety." I'm not all for workers of the world uniting and all that other stuff. I'm not a Marxist, but an educated and open-minded Canadian university student with my own personal ideas of how best to run society. If you want to call me a Liberal, than do so, because it's as close as you can get to my thinking. But don't assume that everyone who doesn't hold conservative ideological views is an adherent to an extinct econo-political philosphy that had a nasty totalitarian streak in it. If you assert that there is a direct correlation that exists in our society between wealth and usefulness, there isn't. If you assert that there is a direct correlation that exists in our society between wealth and the amount of work one does, there isn't. Not to say that capitalism is evil. But to say it has flaws that a well-meaning government can iron out, often to the great dissatisfaction of those who have been held in a "secure" position by their economic dominance. Visionaries like Trudeau felt that government wasn't an evil force, but an institution of the public, with responsibilities to defend the public interest. I hope you don't believe it's in the public interest to have a society where downright unethical tobacco execs make a business of spreading their addicitive and posionous goods to the public in an unchecked manner. Especially after conspiring with one another to cover up evidence of their product's harmful effects from the public, and by extension the government. I hope you don't believe that their interference in the democratic process by buying a political party its convention is an important step in curbing the power of the government, and by extension the public. I'm beginning to suspect that Omega was repeatedly violated as a child by some evil and vindictive civil servant. His innate fear of government activity that extends anywhere beyond the realm of justice and national defence could only has arisen in that fashion, as could his view that government is a nasty and powerful force that has to be stood up to by the valiant forces of big business in the name of freedom for all. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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