Re: 鈥�91原创s rejecting socialist engineering,鈥� letter, April 18.
The letter-writer praises the incoming Alberta government with the yellowed canard that such governments correct the errors of 鈥渟ocialist engineering.鈥� The writer does not consider the facts.
He lives in a country that has created universal health care and pensions and a robust banking system to protect the operation of capitalism 鈥� protecting our country from the fruit of the worst form of capitalism that we saw in 2008. Such developments can be considered 鈥渟ocialist engineering.鈥�
Without it, we would be left to the capitalist engineering that some politicians would like to have in place, with each person bearing the weight of health-care debt alone, potentially no pensions and a capitalism in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and very rarely do the latter become the former. Taxes and a constantly shifting partnership between 鈥渟ocialism鈥� and capitalism are what make for a civilized society.
Michael Hemmings
Victoria
