This is your brain on Fox News. wrote:
> On Apr 4, 5:04 pm, "Meldon Fens" <mel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > A formula for slavery: GDP = C + I + G + (X-M)
> >
> > "Government has no resources of its very own. The only way government
can
> > give one person money is to first take it from another person. Doing
so
> > represents the forcible using of one person, through the tax code, to
serve
> > the purposes of another. That is a form of immorality akin to slavery.
After
> > all, a working definition of slavery is precisely that: the forcible
use of
> > one person to serve the purposes of another." - John M. Olin, 2005;
The
> > condensed version of "The Road to Serfdom"
> > by F.A. Hayek as it appeared in the April 1945 edition of reader's
digest,
> > Forward by Walter E. Williams
> >
> >
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?title=The+Roa...
> >
> > ----
> > There is still time to prevent another jewish holocaust.
> > Help Meldon fight the WAR.
> >
> > www.myspace.com/meldons_war
>
> One problem with your formula. In America, the govenment, when it's
> functioning properly, answers to the will of the people. The
> government is controlled by the people--when democracy works here,
> once Bush is removed.
>
> Those who advocate for the privatization of everything are interested
> in only their own greed. They believe that only the rich should have
> college educations, health benefits, property, clean water, untainted
> food, the use of roads and highways, law enforcement, fire department,
> and a myriad of other services provided by the government.
>
> To return to the nonsense of Meldon's post, those tax dollars are
> gathered and spent on what the will of the people demand. Perhaps the
> government doesn't always follow the will of the people but that is
> only because the people are sometimes too lazy and self absorbed to
> make the government listen.
>
> I'll close with one simple illustration of what would happen if Meldon
> got his way. Imagine that streets and highways are privatized.
> Someone owns the street that you live on, the highway near your home,
> the bridges you cross. These people who own these streets, highways
> and bridges want to make a profit off of their owner****p. They'll
> charge you a lot more than what the government does to maintain the
> roads because the government isn't in the road maintaining business to
> make a profit. They'll charge high tolls. You'll be charged heavily
> just to drive down your street to the local market. Perhaps you'll
> just walk then. Where will you walk? Without a government, commons
> will no longer exists, such as sidewalks and free streets. Perhaps
> those who own the streets will be generous enough to let you walk the
> street. Just look at how generous all the cor****ations are. During
> our economic downturn, didn't you notice how generous the oil
> companies were by lowering the price of fuel and how grocery stores
> have lowered the price of food and ....yeah, generosity isn't what
> cor****ations are about.
>
> Privatization benefits only the very rich. Do you have a few million
> dollars? If not, then privatization will hurt you.
Show me where I suggested, inferred, implied any such notion of
privatization. I *am* trying to point out that government expenditures
is factored into GDP. That's the people's money that's being spent. WE
have to pay for it.
One suggestion might be to use the inverse (1/G) in the GDP equation
instead of (G/1).
One country alone could not hope to do this and compete, so the UN
could institute the change on a global scale. Everything stays exactly
the same except government's propensity to spend.
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