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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: (The CBC) Re: Nationalization/Crown Corps.
Message-ID: <303@looking.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 03:14:54 EDT
References: <300@looking.UUCP> <3283@garfield.UUCP>
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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In article <3283@garfield.UUCP> lionel@garfield.UUCP (Lionel H. Moser) writes:
>1) The CBC provides a service NOT provided by private industry. That is
>   precisely why it *is* provided by government. Nobody says that YOU
>   have to listen to CBC. But it's there, and WE, as society, have
>   decided to pay for it. 

I never said I didn't like the CBC.  I do listen to it.  I simply said that
just because you or I like something doesn't mean that we have the right
to force other people to pay for it.  We as a society have NOT decided to
pay for all these things, and I wish people would stop saying it.  The
government of this executive representative democracy has decided these
things.  Every 4 years or so, I get an approximately binary choice between
two almost identical platforms.  I guess I really did make all those
decisions!  Silly me!
>
>2) Just because YOU don't like something doesn't mean it's moral
>   (moral?) to allow you to NOT pay for it. Do you want out of road
>   taxation? What about railroad wheat cars? What about national
>   defense? Where do you draw the line? 
I am not going around saying that roads are bad.  I am not out to pass
judgement (in this debate) on any of these things.  I am out to put
down the silly philosophy that says people should be forced to pay to prop
up things that could never work in real life.  But we do pay, whenever
somebody in Ottawa decides we should.  And all you people do is bicker
back and forth trying to convince the people in Ottawa to spend money on
YOUR cause instead of THEIR cause.
>
>   What is this, the "me generation" hotline? Sell the crown corps,
>everybody fend for him/her-self. Scrap anything provided by government
>in the national interest. If it doesn't make money, ditch it. If it
>does make money, give it away to the friends of the politicians.
Rather the "me" generation then the "big government" generation anyday.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473