To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.debateOpen lugnet.off-topic.debate in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Debate / 24510
24509  |  24511
Subject: 
Re: Only nations can generate patriotic pride (Re: Some good news for a change, maybe?)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:11:18 GMT
Viewed: 
859 times
  
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote:

Don't get me wrong, government is critically important (like say, a decent
sewerage system), but its highest achievement is to be just a tool.

My sewerage system is completely privately owned and works just fine.

That's wonderful.

The point (in case I was not abundantly clear) is not that governments should
run sewerage systems, but that governments are important, like sewerage systems
are important.

Richard
Still baldly going...



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Only nations can generate patriotic pride (Re: Some good news for a change, maybe?)
 
(...) Oops. My bad. I guess I didn't read what was written...and now it's spawned off a stray conversation. Oh well. Now I wonder if I should go back and disagree with your actually point. :-) Chris (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Only nations can generate patriotic pride (Re: Some good news for a change, maybe?)
 
(...) My sewerage system is completely privately owned and works just fine. Chris (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

81 Messages in This Thread:































Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR