Craig Jungers wrote: > It has reached the point where, for someone who was born in the USA > in the 1940s, the life one grew up with is now constrained on all sides > by rules and fees which don't immediately appear to offer a benefit > to society [...] Let me add as someone born in the 1940s that there are now twice as many Americans as when I was a kid, and that crowding inevitably changes society, not usually for the better. You can't paddle the same river twice. I'm not sure how this applies to wearing PFDs, but it sure applies to a lot of other rule-making. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Oct 18 2006 - 10:15:57 PDT
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