And then there's Cuba, where education and medicine are free. But
hardly a decent society.
Scotland fits the bill, tho.
At 01:11 PM 1/22/2010, you wrote:
>Yes: and that means there are very few decent societies in our world
>(Canada has Health Care more or less, but education is not free).
>
>The better educated will pay society back I'd think, almost always (if
>only just by being better educated & so better able to do the work
>that makes a society, well, work).
>
>Alas, most advanced late capitalist societies dont have an concern for
>the collective that society should be (cf Thatcher's take on that).
>
>Doug
>On 22-Jan-10, at 3:27 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
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>>I might be reading the comment below completely out of context but
>>it still needs responding to. In any decent society that can afford
>>it education should be free, like health care.
>>
>>Tim A.
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