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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,806
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Bob, Polticians use fear as their main stock in trade. The media goes along with this. One reason I now seldom watch TV news is because of this. First they scare the hell out of us with one fear or another. If there is no problem, by gawd they'll create one! Then, of course, only Government has the ability to "solve" the problem. That serves to create more taxes, less individual liberty, and an increase in the size of the bureaucracy.
It's mostly krap man...we've been more than regulated enough in this country. The realist in me knows the best we can hope for is to slow this "nanny government" trend down. It's fantasy to dream of any meaningful reduction.
Tell me our society isn't already behaving itself under fear...
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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