From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!ajc
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Socialism and the phone company
Article-I.D.: lanl-a.229
Posted: Wed Feb 23 21:55:36 1983
Received: Thu Feb 24 02:29:27 1983
References: houti.214

It seems that no good debate pitting Socialism and Capitalism can
ever proceed without reference to the *phone* company!  The pro-capitalists
are obligated to say, "without Capitalism we wouldn't have the *greatest*
phone system in the world", and the pro-socialists in turn are obliged to
point out that in (god-forbid) *Cuba* phone calls are free.

Well, fellow netters, is the phone company efficent?  *Is* it better than
the phone companies in other countries?  And most important of all, is the
American phone company at bottom representative of Capitalism (because it
is "owned" by its investors) *or* is it representative of Socialism (because
it has been a government regulated industry)?  Well??