On Aug 10, 2009, at 8:40 PM, John Williams wrote:
The politician pretends to be acting
altruistically while still behaving in a self-serving manner.
But the politicians take your money by force and THEN give it to
the businesses.
John:
These two sentences are the problem with people
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Chris Frandsenlear...@mac.com wrote:
Most of the politicians that I have
personally met are not 'self-serving , rather they are making a great
effort to serve.
And they are good at tricking the naive into thinking that they are
behaving altruistically...
We
The very first comment to this is quite perceptive:
Charlie wrote:
So many of our electeds in Washington are owned by the lobbies that
funnel money and other benefits to them. I just can’t see that we will
be able to fix that problem. If we can’t fix that, we can’t have
government for the
You are joking!
On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:22 AM, John Williams wrote:
The politicians have better PR!
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John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Chris Frandsenlear...@mac.com wrote:
Most of the politicians that I have
personally met are not 'self-serving , rather they are making a great
effort to serve.
And they are good at tricking the naive into thinking that they are
behaving
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Max Battcherm...@worldmaker.net wrote:
What a sad, cynical worldview you live in.
There's alway blissful fantasy to live in. Picture the livers in Nancy
Kress's _Beggars in Spain_ series...although if our politicians were
as honest as her donkeys, I might
Chris Frandsen wrote:
On Aug 10, 2009, at 8:40 PM, John Williams wrote:
The politician pretends to be acting
altruistically while still behaving in a self-serving manner.
But the politicians take your money by force and THEN give it to the
businesses.
John:
These two sentences are
Where can I find the list archives?
Note also that typing Brin-L in Google returns:
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Which produces a page No such list brin-l, which is not helpful if we
want to recruit new members.
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On 8/11/2009 18:53, Trent Shipley wrote:
More fundamental is his objection to the U.S. Government. In effect, he
is saying that the U.S. system of government is inherently illegitimate,
largely because it is run by politicians. By John William's standards
ALL representative democracy is
Max Battcher wrote:
On 8/11/2009 18:53, Trent Shipley wrote:
More fundamental is his objection to the U.S. Government. In effect, he
is saying that the U.S. system of government is inherently illegitimate,
largely because it is run by politicians. By John William's standards
ALL
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Trent Shipleytship...@deru.com wrote:
The government of a sovereign
state takes taxes by force. Most of us believe that is right and
necessary. J.W. doesn't.
Where did I state this view?
By John William's standards
ALL representative democracy is
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