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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Hunger and the Free Market: re to Cramer
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 01:56:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 01:56:11 1985
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In article <677@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>... Go to Third World countries
>throughout the world and see how many poor people are *starving* while
>a landed aristocracy controls the vast majority of the land.

For the past month of so I've essentially ignored a hemorrage of 
mindless drivel from sevener about libertarians this, government that,
how traffic in New Jersey (the most policed state in the nation) is
an example of anarchy, and further insults to any sense of truth,
honesty, and reasoned discussion.  

This latest piece of distilled paranoia and class hatred, however,
represents a new low.  Starvation in today's world occurs not quite
but almost exclusively because of "democratic" collectivist intervention.
Ethiopia was a net food exporter before its Communist takeover;  so
was Russia.  If you're interested in a study of the phenomenon on a 
global scale, try "A Pattern for Failure" by Sven Rydenfelt.  It is
somewhat depressing...

In espousing the very socialistic systems that are responsible for
the carnage, tim displays his political naivete and ignorance;  in
pretending at the same time to feel for the victims, he exhibits 
an utter callous disregard for any human decency whatsoever.

--JoSH