From: Rebecca Temmer (ratemmer.lists@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 14 2005 - 00:26:27 GMT
Hey Platt,
you said:
Not sure whether you are for or against of welfare payments, unemployment
benefits and minimum wage levels.
Rebecca:
welfare: for
UI benefits: for
Minimum wage: for
All of these with caveats, however, that they're used for what they were
intended for. Not for supporting people indefinitely but for giving them a
helping hand when things go unexpectedly wrong.
Platt:
What do you think are the problems and what solution(s) do you propose?
Rebecca:
I don't know enough about the situation to tell you what the problems are.
The solutions, if they are to truly remedy the situation, need to be
holistic and sustainable. If we're taking hte problem (ie. Rioting) to be
caused by general poverty and high unemployment and the like then a bit of
Keynesian economics coupled with a strong sustainable development program
would help immensely.
Platt:
I've given you my proposals for a higher quality France. What are yours?
Then let's debate, keeping in mind what Pirsig said about the value of
free markets. :-)
Rebecca:
Free markets are nice, however, Pirsig was no economist and he didn't
espouse any particular free market conception.
I'm not an economist either but I do have some background. You can't leave
free markets by themselves (there are no truly "Free" markets anywhere in
the world - they are all constrained). The end of the 19th and beginning of
the 20th century saw some of the most open free markets in history (next to
some of the stuff going on right now). Then the Depression came because
these markets were not properly regulated, people panicked, and *kablam*.
That's what happens when you let the market be too free.
Your move :)
Rebecca
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