Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: Re: Newsflash! [JoSH on Socialists] Message-ID: <547@spar.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 13:53:36 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.547 Posted: Sat Sep 28 13:53:36 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 05:47:51 EDT References: <1674@dciem.UUCP> <28200103@inmet.UUCP> Organization: The Institute for Impure Science Lines: 13 > Whoa! Let's have some historical examples please, of a government that > CREATED wealth. [Nat Howard] Well, today marks the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Hoover Dam, which provides flood control, electricity, and fresh water for much of the the arid American Southwest. It was planned, paid for, and is still managed by the U.S government. The wages for the (otherwise unemployed) workers and payment for the materials may only have been a localized redistribution of tax monies, but the fact of the matter is that they produced something that continues to materially benefit hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people. Why isn't that wealth? Baba