[ale] [OT] Ga. Power & the "Flat Rate Plan"

[David Ritchie]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Don't get me wrong - I'm not a neo-con by any stretch of the imagination and don't believe in "unrestrained" capitalism but rather "managed" capitalism.  The former gave us the society where we had 20 millionaires and everyone else working 16 hours a day for $1.   The economic melt down at the end of Dubya's 8 years showed us once again that "unrestrained" capitalism and "trickle down economics" are very bad ideas for most of us.   In the long run they're even bad for the people at the top though most of them are too short sighted to see it.
>

  The problem has been recently is that the neocons believe that any
regulation is bad, so there shouldn't be any regulation. I have
compared
this to playing basketball without referees.... as long as no one is keeping
score, it isn't too bad, but once money or standing start getting
measured, a refereeless game doesn't look so good.

-- Dave