RE: [Asrg] New take on emerging idea. (Query/C-R system?)

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>]

> "John Fenley" <pontifier@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > The real question was who pays for this system.
> > I propsed the US government because they are an oganization 
> who's purpose is 
> > to supply needed systems to the population, that would be 
> to costly for a 
> > buisines.
> > Would we have an interstate highway system, or hoover/glen 
> canyon/Grand 
> > Coulee Dam without the government? These systems help everyone.
> 
>   Not me.  I don't live in the U.S., and I have no plans to *ever*
> live in the U.S.
> 
>   As Chuq noted, the U.S. is not the entire world.  Not everyone
> trusts the American government.  Any system *must* work world-wide,
> and MUST NOT depend on the benevolence of one government.

Actually when it comes to it the US government does not really want
to perform this role.

As a point of fact projects at least as expensive in terms of capital
as the Hoover dam are constructed using private capital. Of course
no project of that type could be achieved in a state of complete 
anarchy, but the fact that anarchy and central planning are not the
same thing does not mean there are the only alternatives. There is 
a whole spectrum in between, from the corporate kleptocracy to 
socialism.

		Phill
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