Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!elf From: elf@utcsrgv.UUCP (Eugene Fiume) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Doing only that ... Message-ID: <5057@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 11:11:56 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.5057 Posted: Tue Aug 21 11:11:56 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 11:22:24 EDT References: <750@ubc-ean.CDN> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 18 I am always amused by the argument that business should be left to businessmen, because they know how to make a profit. I suspect a large proportion of them are just as adept at losing money as our favourite whipping post. ("Ah, but that's different, because when businesses lose money, all that happens is that people lose their jobs and go on pogey, and then businesses can claim to have a 'lean, tough' new outlook and apply for government subsidies.") I am always amused when business leaders blame the government for their financial woes (invariably getting a sympathetic ear), and yet when our government says that maybe the policies of our Good Friends down south have something to do with our financial situation, the same people cry foul. I suppose ethnics like me are easily amused. Eugene Fiume U of Toronto