On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 00:14, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:24:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > I think government pretty much mops up after the services that aren't > "sexy" enough for private enterprise to think of it (rapid transit, > police, fire) and should take control of services everybody needs
Ever heard of private security guards? It must be sexy enough for someone... > (schools, health care, utilities) that private enterprise has abused > (price-fixing, racketeering, etc). That should be the new threat to You haven't seen New Orleans City Hall, have you? It is chock full of Past Masters at corruption, stupidity, laziness, etc. > businesses behaving badly: Shape up or we take it. Things must be different up in Oregon, because, here, for instance, even low-income people will go into debt to get their kids out of the public schools, and a 1/2 dozen policemen in the pennitentiary, one on death row, for killing the woman who was to testify against him, and a policewoman on death row for killing someone who double-crossed her while she was guarding a drug ring while on duty. (Note that this is in a small city, not New York, w/ it's 50,000 police!) And don't get me started about the streets! A national survey shows that New Orleans has the 2nd worst streets in the country. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
