[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Fritz Wuehler]

> In article <4edf3847$0$2098$c3e8da3$a9097924 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> > 
> > A government running puplic transit or national railways or the post
> > office is not really socialism because it is a basic service like roads
> > and water which are expected to be provided by government and which do
> > not interest private enterprise.

Well go and read the Constitution. The federal government has very specific
authority ("enumerated powers"). Any thing else is resevered to the people
or the States. It turns out "postal roads" *are* within the purview. Public
transit is not. When the federal government regulates (our definition, not
the Constitution's) anything they weren't chartered to regulate, they start
down the slippery slope of socialism. Welcome to today.

> 
>    How about a government running a national freight rail line at a
>    profit?

Unconstitutional. And socialist.