On 1/8/06, Bob Hemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 19:16 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:57, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, in our system, there is
> > > no middle of the road party.
> >
> > It's called the Libertarian party and you and I would both be staunch
> > supporters if they only had a chance of winning an election.
> 'Pears most of you folks are anti-government.
Not really, just anti government involvement in an ever growing
portion of our lives, demanding an ever growing and seemingly
limitless portion of our wages.
> Doesn't that make you
> Anarchists? Government is not bad. Bad politicians and bad bureaucrats
> make for bad government. Good people the opposite. Good means does not
> lie, does not steal, I guess honest covers this. Bad the opposite.
>
> It's going to take money to run a government. The larger the population
> the more money. I'm afraid that to do govt. well the $$ line is more
> geometric than arithmetic.
If only that were all of it. The problem is that government creates
more and more programs, and the geometric growth of these will be more
than the economy can bear.
> The only way to counteract the problem is to have a well educated
> population that is well informed and to remove the "Big Money" out of
> the election cycles.
>
You'll get no argument here. If elections were publicly financed and
the election cycle limited to six weeks, there would be fewer fat cats
in Washington.
--
Collins Richey
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
smart enough to debug it.
-Brian Kernighan
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