Why are US oil companies subsidized? Why is agriculture subsidized? Why are banks bailed out almost every time? Why does government fund much of the pharmaceutical research? Why is socialized medicine rated higher? (France #1 US #37) Why are the top rated countries for quality of life always Finland, Sweden, & other social Democracies?
Russia was run by the communist party (dictatorship) during your period. Is still run by a dictator. Sham elections. That’s it, no more, I get the last word. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, May 4, 2023, 9:54 AM, billogden <billog...@optonline.net> wrote: Thank you for trying to stop the runaway politics. I do spend time looking at a fair amount of history. I have some memories of comments from the 1500s, the 1700s, the 1800s, and the early 1900s all saying (using various terms) that "changes" (aka "progress") should be stopped because "things are better without changes." For example, look how many people lost their jobs when "automation" replaced horses ---- or how many "traditional" healers lost their hobbies when antibiotics were invented. One can carry this line of thinking to almost any point in history. "Stop progress" "Stop the smarter people" "Stop the more capable people" "Inventors/investors/organizers/hard-workers should not be allowed to profit from their special work" "etc, etc, etc" Silly? Look carefully at Russia from about 1920 to 1980 and see what enforced socialism brings. END ---- no more on this topic! Bill Ogden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
