I asked how 300 million people settled on 0.0725 government employees/capita for 30 years and continued arguing the whole time about whether the government was getting too big. Did they not know that the size of the government/capita had stabilized? Did they not understand that the number of teachers, policemen, firemen, tax collectors, and inspectors scaled with the size of the population? Are our elected officials too stupid to understand or explain this? Are you all laughing at me because this is something that every school girl knows?
Owen, the glass is half full. I swear by 1+1=2, the glass is half full. And it's all going to turn out just the way it does, no matter how you feel about it. And not to further contribute to your self-centered hijacking of this thread, but, Obama took the hardest job in the world, hardly anything turned out as anyone expected or might have wished, but he did the job. If you're disappointed, then that's between you and your expectations. If you want a braggart for president, vote for Romney, he's clearly the sort who can confidently take credit for anything that happens, with only a few mis-steps on the way to victory. But start your own thread and stop projecting your personal depressions over every question raised on this mailing list. -- rec --
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