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...beast. It is no more reasonable to expect the government to run a cheap, efficient system of mail delivery than it is to expect water to run uphill. The USPS is a monopoly, and a government-operated one at that. It has no profit motive; in the private sector, a firm has to make a profit to survive, and it can only do that by providing people with a service they want at a price they are willing to pay. If it raises its prices, a private firm faces the threat of competition from other firms. None of this...
...past few years, on a sounder economic footing. Instead of being run for such "social goals" as full employment and regional development, the nationalized industries, which account for 11% of Britain's $187 billion G.N.P., are now being told to earn profits, and outstanding businessmen from the private sector are being brought in to run them...
...leaflet credits the Austrian School with the following viewpoint, among others: "The public sector necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy...
...Harvard Square will serve as a spur for a $50-million Harvard Square development project that is vital to the welfare of all of Cambridge. Without it most of the MBTA subway tract will revert to the state--possibly leading to uncoordinated development of the Square's southwest sector...
...Frelimo seems singularly well-equipped for a strategy of cooperation with and reliance on the rural sector to combat the problems of poverty, illiteracy and the lack of skilled personnel that face most third-world nations. The areas controlled by Frelimo before Portugal's decision to renounce its African colonies were indeed organized on a collective basis, and the villagers were involved in the development of those areas. Frelimo ran schools and hospitals in the liberated provinces even while it was mobilizing to fight the Portuguese armies, and the peasant loyalty it won then seems not to have been eroded...