I totally agree Jon
Rascal
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"Rick Barnes" <rascal@scrtc.com> wrote:
:droo <03dakotaCC4.7_4x4@comcast.net> wrote:
:: There are plenty of good things that never would have ha[ppened in the
:: government didn't force it. That's not to say that everything they force
:: is a good idea as per your example.
: There are plenty more good things that could happen if government would
just
: stay out of the way.
Agreed. I'm of the opinion that the government is a pretty
incompetent organization as a whole. Almost everything it does,
it does poorly, and anything it decides to meddle with is inevitably
worse off for it. (And that's when they are *trying* to do the right
thing; mix in a dash of the inevitable corruption and politics and
watch any semblance of proficiency go right out the window.) The people
(individual citizens) are what make the country work, and the government
needs to stay out of their way. IMHO, about the only things the gov't
should be concerned with are national defense, enforcing the law and
possibly coordination of essential services (infrastructure). In fact,
there were many limitations placed on the federal government by the
founding fathers to prevent it from oozing, aomeba-like, into areas it
had no business being, gumming up the cogs of the national machine and
trampling on the freedoms of its citizens. Unfortunately, over time
these restrictions have been ignored, and so we find ourselves in our
present situation where the government is prevalent in almost every
aspect of our daily lives, and hardly anyone even seems to question it
anymore. Most people probably don't know this, but almost everything
the federal government does these days is in fact, unconstitutional!
(What sad times are these when passing ruffians can say nee at
will to old ladies...)
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