Date:         Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:47:07 -0400
Reply-To:     "Joe L." <jliasse@TOAST.NET>
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From:         "Joe L." <jliasse@TOAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: The dead thread
Comments: To: "M.R. Nimmo" <mrnimmo@YAHOO.COM>
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    On the contrary; the politicians have learned VERY well how to keep
happy the people who REALLY count; the first of which is, of course,
themselves.
    As long as one harbors the opinion that government always tries to act
in the best interest of all the people many of the things government does
will make no sense. But if one looks at it from the point of view of the
individual politician's desire to get in office and stay there even the most
rediculous law suddenly makes sense.
   Politicians are no different from anyone else in their desire to promote
and advance themselves. In other professions this is done by making a better
or cheaper product and trying to convince people to buy it. The politician's
product is POWER. The "product" is improved by increasing that power. The
more power an individual politician has the more other's will seek the favor
of the politician and the more that politician can charge for that favor in
the form of campaign contributions and the like. As with any business the
politician will concentrate on that section of the market that is able and
willing to purchase the power he is selling and files those who cannot or
will not purchase to the back of the line.
     Politicians are not evil in this, they are human and humans are like
that. The Founding Fathers knew this and tried to limit the power wielded by
the government; a politician cannot sell power he does not have. But
unfortunately that attempt failed and what was ment to be a small corner
store has instead become the largest mall in the world.

----- Original Message -----
From: M.R. Nimmo <mrnimmo@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 8:56 AM
Subject: The dead thread


> The monopoly is theirs (USPS) by law,as is the
> requirement to serve every address.
>
> I love Rooseveltian economics:  monopolies are
> cheaper.
> We never learn.
>
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