or else support & believe that heavy-handed government intervention to redistribute wealth upward = a free market. Puleeze!

Rainier,
What is the connection between the privileged and wealthy being anti nanny state.....sorry but I don't quite get your drift.
NSB

Let us never forget Aesop, an observer of Man and Beast.

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to office”

He said six centuries before Christ.

We have yet to learn that the Vote, the Power that belonged to the King, is now ours.

We must choose administrators (Ministers) like the Kings did.

Employ them at a salary fixed by us and for the time of our choosing.

Away with Politicians, away with charlatans, away with thieves, away with jailers, away with war mongers!

No more State secrets.

Democracy is open business, open for all to check.

Sorry chaps, no more keys!

Hi Rainier,

How are you?

Sorry I've got to disagree. I'm alive, still, feel very privilaged and never ever complain (any more anyway). Health care (in the cities) is fantastic.

I don't pretend; I've benefited; my kids might disagree.

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The argument of the 'nanny state' is the I don't have any better arguments argument.
The state which developed in the western world from 1945 to 1978 was based on social democracy. The age of insecurity of the interwar period was ended with the decline in the inequality of people living within the social democratic state.
After all what is so bad about public education? Or public health care? or the welfare payments of unemployment when the economy goes into recession?
These things are all better than petty assistance in the form of donations to charities.
We are entering a new age of insecurity with inequality ever increasing, thus making the cost of living ever higher for the great majority. We must salvage what we can from the memory of social democracy.
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