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On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
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