[Peace-discuss] socializing an industry -- good but also bad

[Karen Medina]

>   Amen to all that!, and I'd add to the list "food,
>   energy and essential services" health insurance, the
>   railroads. The profit motive (capitalism) in
>   "essential institutions or industries" is not one
>   which can be trusted to lead to the best and most
>   efficient services for all the people, and which
>   will lead to a sustainable society.    --mkb

Car industries too?

Banks, I kind of like that idea. 

I'll just point out that horrible things can happen to natural resources in the hands 
of the wrong executive (James Watt was a horrible Secretary of the Interior). 

What is to keep a state owned industry from being mismanaged the same way? 
Schools, for example, are being mismanaged. FEMA. 

-karen medina