Still going...and going...and going...and going...and going...and
going...and going...and going...and going...and going...and going...and
going...and going...and going...and going...and going...
Heheheheh
-----Original Message-----
From: jon@dakota-truck.net [mailto:jon@dakota-truck.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:18 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: Made in China
"Pindell, Tim P" <TPindell@otterbein.edu> wrote:
>"Jon Steiger" <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote:
>> "We" shouldn't do anything about them. It is not the government's
>> role to create jobs, its only roles are to provide national defense,
>> mete out justice according to proscribed law, and enforce the
>> contractual obligations of its citizens. Anything not covered by the
>> previous sentence is an item that government should not be involved
>> with in any way. Government's "role", (if you want to call it that),
>> in regards to finding new jobs for displaced workers is merely to
>> stay out of the way and let the market work.
> Someone is in for a big disappointment. Keep tilting at those
> windmills, Jon. You still might be able to vote "Ron Paul".
I'm already dissapointed. The system is *already* broken. The
principles I referenced are how the government was originally designed to
work and how it *should* be working. I am under no illusion that these
fundamental principles are given even the slightest thought by most in
government today. I am optimistic that there are opportunities to turn back
the clock on many of the abuses of the past
230+ years and move closer to those ideals, but we are so far gone
that I fear a complete return would probably require another massive
catalyst such as a catastrophe and/or another War for Independence.
Its no surprise to me that your response was more of the same - sarcasm
and attemtped denigration rather than real content or ideas.
The fact that you would think I will someday be dissapointed to discover
that our government doesn't proscribe to its founding ideals is illustrative
of the regard you hold for my grasp of any of these issues and confirms that
I have been wasting my time with you. I suppose I knew it all along, but my
optimism for a person's desire to search for the truth, or at the very least
to remain open to the possibility of other ideas tends to cloud my judgement
sometimes.
There is a difference between ignorance and stubbornness; the former can be
corrected, but some people just refuse to be helped, and I'm not going to
lose any sleep over it. A life ruled by emotion rather than logic and
accompanied by denial, helplessness, depression and simple festering hatred
is your self imposed prison. I wouldn't wish the world you live in upon
anyone.
Fortunately, it hasn't been a complete waste of time. Some interesting
ideas have been posted here and I have earned a newfound respect for certain
DMLers by virtue of what has been posted. Plus, who knows what impact it
may have on someone merely reading the discussion. Sometimes, just one
question or a seed of doubt is all it takes to open the floodgates of
discovery. I can picture it now - a DMLer in the year 2050 is going to be
browsing through the archives and he will think to himself, "Wow! Those
guys had *way* too much time on their hands!" :-)
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-Jon-
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