From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 07:46:01 BST
Arlo said of Platt ...
"I find it odd you place the blame on liberals"
Really ? I don't.
Why another thread about Platt's politics ?
(Rather than morals and values.)
Ian.
On 6/29/05, Mark Steven Heyman <markheyman@infoproconsulting.com> wrote:
> On 29 Jun 2005 at 1:47, mark maxwell wrote:
>
>
> Mark: Looks like your government is a corporate entity
> then doesn't it Platt. You would understand this if
> you read your Chomsky. But you don't, do you?
>
> msh:
> Or even if the faux philosopher bothered to read John Dewey who said
> government is the shadow cast by big business. TFP and the other so-
> called "libertarians" are so far out of touch with reality they think
> the shadow exists on its own.
>
> The concept of eminent domain has taken a business-inspired
> surrealistic shift, that's for sure. The original idea was to
> acquire land for the public good, that is, to move private land into
> public hands for the benefit of the community as a whole. Now it's
> about taking land from one private party and giving it to another
> just because the second party will generate more profit from it.
> However, don't expect such eminent domain issues to arise in Malibu
> or Brentwood or the Hamptons. And lemme know when the government
> decides to take Bill Gate's house in order to build a public school
> or park or library. Now THAT would be an interesting development.
>
>
> Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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