Except of course when the people making the laws are corporatists, then the interests of business come first, people a distant third...
-----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:20 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Tea Party thinks Businesses should be allowed to deny service to blacks. And I agree with Jerry. Government should take a light hand with business. However, Businesses *are not people*. I want everyone to repeat that again and again until it gets through their skulls. The first duty of the Government is to protect the rights and welfare of its people. The interests of business cannot trump that. Judah On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have to say I actually agree with him in the abstract. The Federal >> Government does NOT belong in private business transactions. >> >> Unfortunately, abstract fails when idiots own businesses. And then it >> unfortunately requires the person with the biggest stick to say "children, >> STOP IT". > > One of the most insightful things I will read this week. Thanx Jerry. > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/386 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319356 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
