Re: Leftism or rightism, when developed to the extreme, becomes of each other.

From: francispoon <fyfpoon_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 30 Aug 2004 10:18:13 -0700

"Scream Machine" <shake_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<8T4Yc.238289$M95.44872_at_pd7tw1no>...
> I can't remember where I read it, but I read somewhere that the heavy users
> of the Canadian healthcare system are newcomers to Canada (immigrants). Can
> anyone confirm this?
> I'm just curious as to know if this has anything to do with the push for a
> more privatized user-pay system.
> The breakdown of communities in free-market societies is quite apparent -
> ie. New York where everyone is trigger-happy rude. Home builders and
> developers routinely produce seductive ads selling the idea of a happy
> picket-fenced utopian community, where everyone knows each other, and all
> unified happily together. And in the US, "gated-communities" are all the
> rage - a feeble attempt to create the illusion of what community once was -
> the idea of security, and everyone knowing each other as one big happy
> tribe. With capitalism and market economics, "community" has been
> obliterated.
>
> Has the breakdown of the community and the loss of cohesion (with
> multiculturalism) had anything to do with this desire or move for privatized
> health-care?

The laws of supply and demands in economics apply to both the multicultural or mono-cultural societies. Perhaps you could invent separate branches of economics studies.

FP

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> "francispoon" <fyfpoon_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:936eaee8.0408260938.58dbc9a7_at_posting.google.com...
> > The social medical care system in BC of Canada has been falling into
> > pieces. A simple operation takes about 6 months of waiting in line.
> > Against this background, the BC government lately succumbs to the
> > innovative approach of farming out operations to the private clinics.
> > This is the first step in the right direction in terms of setting free
> > market forces. We call the fallout in BC medical system a legacy of
> > 'socialism'. However, the policy makers who did this years ago did so
> > out of the noble intention of achieving social equality.
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> > On the other hand, under the 'rightist' government of Bush, the
> > seniors are paying as much as US$300 for their monthly high blood
> > pressure medicine. The price is so high because of the formation of
> > oligopoly by the pharmacy cartel. The later has been a large fund
> > contributor to the Bush campaigne. The pharmacy companies have done
> > that out of 'ignoble' intention to screw the elderly for their own
> > profit.
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> > In conclusion, both leftists and rightists are capable of obstructing
> > market forces. While the former do so out of ignorance but _noble_
> > intentions, the latter out of smart manipulation but _ignoble_
> > intention.
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> > FP
Received on Mon Aug 30 2004 - 10:18:14 PDT