I am somewhat surprised at such dribble. A number of governments have
established quite impressive records over the past four to five years.
They tend however to be unitary governments and not to be of the checks
and balance variety cherished by American traditions. Work in both New
Zealand and Australia has been quite impressive and recognized by
IMF.
For example see
http://www.willamette.org/ipmn/
Henry B. Thomas
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Jay Hanson wrote:
> At 09:12 PM 11/10/97 -0500, GreenPlanet wrote:
>
> >>Thus, one can only elect idiots or liars. The ideas of
> >>government by popularity contest and accountability
> >>are mutually exclusive.
> >>
> >>Jay -- http://dieoff.org/page1.htm
> >>
> >
> >Perhaps it goes further. The idea of government itself is a series of
> >idiotic exercises that only liars and opportunists can relate to. Why worry
>
> This may well be true. One of the main functions of the human
> brain seems be inventing fairy tales and lies (e.g., economic
> and political theories) in order to "rationalize" our innate
> drive to exploit (make the best use of) everything we can.
>
> >From an American perspective, is seems impossible for our
> society of "rationalizing" (or reactive) animals to be
> proactive at all.
>
> On the other hand, some other governments DO seem to be
> successfully proactive. Only time will tell.
>
> Jay -- http://dieoff.org
>
>
