[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Fritz Wuehler wrote 2011-12-09 01:29:
>> 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.
>

Are you realy saying that the US constitution in some way is a rule
to decide what is socialism or not ? Of course it isn't. Those that
wrote that document had no clue about socialism.

Thinking that something written over 200 years ago has to be
rellevant for the world of today, has it's problems. Things change.

The US constitution was probably a big-deal at the time when it
was written, but probably less rellevant today. It was a very
different time.



You seems to think that
>>
>>     How about a government running a national freight rail line at a
>>     profit?
>
> Unconstitutional. And socialist.
>