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   On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:53:17 -0500, "no surrender"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Tim Howard"  wrote in message   
   >news:47983ed6$0$4049$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net...   
   >> no surrender wrote:   
   >> > I'm presently reading an amazing book, The Capitalist Manifesto by   
   >Andrew   
   >> > Bernstein.   
   >> >   
   >> > Here is one of the pithier quotes from it:   
   >> >   
   >> > "...capitalism, in the brief span of two centuries, has brought greater   
   >> > improvement in the material conditions of men's lives than have the   
   >statist   
   >> > regimes of all preceding centuries combined."   
   >> > ****   
   >> > An amazing fact, eh!   
   >> >   
   >> > Dennis   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> The fact is capitalism brought very little improvement to people's lives   
   >> until laws and reforms were made, or forced upon the capitalists.  Those   
   >> labor, health and safety, consumer, environmental laws etc. and the   
   >> implementation of an income tax to re-distribute some of the wealth (not   
   >> nearly enough IMO) are what lead to the workers to some level of   
   >> prosperity themselves.   
   >******   
   >I suggest you read the first 100 or so pages, then get back to us. You'll   
   >have learned you have been misled by your socialist teachers and mentors.   
      
   unregulated capitalism gave us child labor, unsafe working conditions,   
   70 hour work weeks, contaminated food, and environmental destruction.   
   Read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.   
      
   Hal   
      
   >   
   >Dennis   
   >   
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