Think it is time for some Detrol LA?
WiLieR
On 2/7/08, Bernd D. Ratsch <bernd@dodgetrucks.org> wrote:
>
> 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
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> "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!" :-)
>
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
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