-=> Mike Powell wrote to Rob Mccart <=-

 > It's been said (arguably) that Communism is the best form of government
 > but the problem is it relies on total honesty for it to work properly
 > so, knowing humans, it's never going to work.
 > Pretty much all communist countries have a VERY weathy small upper
 > class and a very poor everyone else in a system where everyone is
 > supposed to, in theory, share everything equally.

 MP> Communism can work if it is voluntary, i.e. one joins a commune and one
 MP> can leave if one doesn't like it.  As a form of government, it can
 MP> never really work because it is compulsary and many folks won't like
 MP> receiving the same reward for hard work while watching others that are
 MP> rewarded for doing just the bare minimum.

This is partly how people claim Christian churches are socialist, because
the strong help the weak. BUT - it's voluntary... And in the first few
centuries they DID take care of the widows and the orphans.

Fast forward to today and if the 'church' would do that today... Well...
We wouldn't need welfare, etc. 

But man is, on the whole, greedy...



... Before the crowbar was invented, crows had to drink at home.
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