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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Enforced socialism?!?!?!? - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 18:44:00 EST
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uiucdcs!renner    Apr 16 17:44:00 1984

>  /**** uiucdcs:net.politics / mit-eddi!lkk / 12:25 am  Apr 14, 1984 ****/
>  From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP:
>  The nice thing about capitalism is that it works better than any other system
>  that has been tried.
>  ----
>  Meanwhile, the countries in Europe that have stronger economies and
>  higher standards of living than us (scandanavia and germany and holland
>  come to mind) are all more highly socialized than the USA.  How long
>  are people in this country going to perpetuate the myth of failed socialism?
>  						-- Larry Kolodney

You might want to read the April 9 issue of Newsweek.  It contains a special
report on "The Decline of Europe," describing how "economic stagnation and
powerful malaise darken the future of a once proud and powerful continent."
A major theme in this article is the political difficulty of eliminating the
many government welfare programs and the economic impossibility of continuing
to pay for them.

Scott Renner
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