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To: A. Pole
... and tell what is not conservative about it!

All of it. There is no such thing as a "just wage", no universal definition of the "common good", and, if you want to impose "the rights of labour over capital", you can say goodbye to capital.

Also, if you believe that "the purpose of government is the promotion of the common good", I have some Florida swampland you might want to invest in.

130 posted on 04/07/2005 10:48:14 AM PDT by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: balrog666
Also, if you believe that "the purpose of government is the promotion of the common good", I have some Florida swampland you might want to invest in.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Are you sure that you wouldn't be happier in some Latin American oligarchy like El Salvador or Honduras?

139 posted on 04/07/2005 11:02:09 AM PDT by A. Pole (The Law of Comparative Advantage: "Americans should not have children and should not go to college")
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To: balrog666
All of it. There is no such thing as a "just wage", no universal definition of the "common good", and, if you want to impose "the rights of labour over capital", you can say goodbye to capital.

Sounds like something Marx would have written. Is the original poster sure he is on the right website?

235 posted on 04/08/2005 12:29:09 AM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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