Yep, the problem, or symptom, if you will, is a reduction of liberties, and is not caused by greed but by government legislation. We also have to keep an eye on the disease and even the cause. The disease is environmentalism. Environmentalists see the world in a fragile balance threatened by the cancerous growth of human population. They believe that without the rapid growth of government control and rapid reduction of human liberities our world will soon be permenantly damaged. Every government reaches a point where the taxation and invaisive government control is unacceptable to the people. It has been found that war is the greatest force to rally a people around their government, but recently there has been some discussion as to whether an external threat other than war might not work even better. Imagine if the very threat to our well being was our liberty. What greater reason could there be for the reduction of our liberty, and the expansion of invaisive government control? Knowing the disease and cause of these symptoms of our world in flux can positively affect the way we vote, but in the end, all we can really do is treat the symptom until we die of the disease. For my part, I'm going to take up fiddling. -- Mike McNally mmcnally3_at_prodigy.net A bit of talcum Is always walcum -- Ogden Nash *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Dec 21 2001 - 14:28:18 PST
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