Thanks Hairyback and others. Isn't it interesting to compare this kind of debate about political issues with the way that such 'debates' are routinely conducted in our public media. Can you imagine a Lateline interview with ANY of our current politicians without a quick descent by the interviewer into ridiculous personality-based vituperation - all designed to appeal to our general base interest in disputation and abuse = ratings, of course. I guess we get the media and the politicians we deserve....
Churchill may be apposite:
"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State."
"Government of the duds, by the duds, and for the duds."
"'All men are created equal' says the American Declaration of Independence. 'All men shall be kept equal' say the Socialists."
"Some see private enterprise as a predatory animal to be shot, others look on it as a cow to be milked but a few see it as a sturdy horse pulling a wagon."
"If you destroy a free market, you create a black market."
"The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery."
