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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] OK - I've stopped steaming ...
  • Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:07:01 -0700


You notice that for the most part our socialist highway system doesn't pave the road right up to our front doors when we choose to live in the boonies. Same is true of social medicine programs.

Roads are a good analogy for how other social systems might work best. The U.S. Department of Transportation coordinates and implements the national system of roads across the country through the various states, the states add their parts connecting the counties, and then the counties add their parts connecting to homes. As the road comes closer to home there is more local control and cost. Each entity does what works best to make the whole most effective. Imagine if each homeowner built just their part of the system. Imagine no national or state coordination; we would have a hodge-podge of meandering dirt roads which might be lovely for sight-seeing but would ill-serve the needs of society. A road system may be socialism at its vital level.







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