Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!zrm From: zrm@mit-eddi.UUCP (Zigurd R. Mednieks) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: State run enterprises Message-ID: <235@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 18:11:36 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.235 Posted: Fri Jun 10 18:11:36 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 10:37:58 EDT References: uwvax.904 Lines: 11 How about taking the broader view that an enterprise like a railroad, a health service, a coal mine or whatever that cannot be run at a profit should not be run at all. Please don't bitch that the capitalists are hobbling the government with unprofitable enterprises. Why are railroads a priori good? Why should big cities be subsidized, when they breed so much crime and pollution? If we stopped backing these crippled horses we might be richer and have a cleaner envioronment as well. Cheers, Zig