On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, coaster brake wrote:

> Tresy Kilbourne wrote:
> > and society benefited. If, in the 50s the government had been
> > straightforward about it and said, it's a choice between publicly
> > subsidized high-tech and no high-tech at all, I think most people would
> > have said, by all means, subsidize high-tech!
>
> sure.. but if the public subsidized it, the public ought to benefit from
> it.  not private corporations.
> thanks from ben
>


I am wondering, who is the "public"? Does public = taxpayers?

Harry