[545] in libertarians
Re: Hello!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Omri Armory Emory Henry Schwarz)
Fri Jan 6 13:38:38 1995
To: "A J GWYNNE" <MM920031@newi.ac.uk>
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jan 1995 18:12:08 GMT."
<9501061815.AA18529@dylan.newi.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 13:36:55 EST
From: Omri Armory Emory Henry Schwarz <ocschwar@MIT.EDU>
Ok, here goes:
[I'm an Israeli supporter of Shinui, the capitalist party,
Australian Liberal (ex-Labourite), and in America I tend to support
the Republican Liberty Caucus, Libertarian Party, and Tsongas'
proposed Centrist Party, a nondogmatic libertarian party.]
>Although I do not profess to agree with all of your policies, I do
>agree with the need for individual liberty in society
Too bad your beliefs in individual freedom aren't complete.
Individual liberty extends more than just to one's body.
If it doesn't extend to your hardearned livelihood and property,
it means little.
Of course, subversion of economic freedom in Britain tends to be more the
fault of Brussels than London nowadays, but London is also to blame.
Examples:
Since Spanish wood is kiln-dried and chemically treated agains cracking,
Britons who die in Spain are not allowed to be buried or cremated in their
Spanish-provided coffins. Upon arrival in the Isles, they are removed
from those and put into British-made coffins. And the Spanish coffins?
Well, your country burns them, of course!
A butcher out in the country side used to slaughter his
cows in one building, then carry the carcasses across his yard to his shop.
Along came the paper pushers, and demanded he connect the two by an
airtight gerbil-tube. He then closed his century-old business.
The EEC has produced many more idiocies, of which I will find more.
>National Health Service
It guarantees fairly good care, but it has already resulted in rationing
(no dialysis for anyone over 55) and further measures by your beloved
Labour Party are liable to subvert the traditional doctor-patient
relation, by limiting the treatments a doctor may prescribe.
I'm premed, so I have an interest in this.
>FREE health care
Oh, come now. You're fairly bright. There is no such thing as "free."
What you don't pay for, someone else does.
>Open University programme which allows people to study for
>under-graduate and post-graduate qualifications
It works admirably well I hear, but since America established its system
first, it suffered the according decline first, and it is only a matter
of time before the same will happen in Britain, I daresay.
>And Labour Governments achieved full employment through a
>Keynsianist/monetarist programme of economic policies.
I think you need to check out unemployment figures before making that claim.
Ever hear of the "British disease"?
Well, glad to hear of someone intersted in hearing disagreement!
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