Re: End of History (Star Wars)

[Andy <soc40001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, John Gelles wrote:

> 	If we concentrate on full employment, higher and
> 	higher minimum wages, stronger laws to protect
> 	collective bargaining, compulsory arbitration of
> 	labor disputes, liberal politics, automation as
> 	the only legitimate way to fight inflation,
> 	managed interest and public debt to protect the
> 	poorest in the nation with respect to home
> 	mortgages, credit card purchases, micro-loans to
>       become self-employers or get trained to make a
> 	living, consumption tax rates for super-high
> 	average aggregate personal spending that will
> 	force the super rich to pay dearly if they do
> 	not reinvest in an economy to serve the rest
> 	of us, etc., then we may be glad to have star
> 	wars as a sensible program until someone can
> 	police the world to remove weapons of great
> 	destructive power from the hands of idiots.
>

Boy, that is a lot of bandaids!

Andy Austin
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