G. Morning Raymond,
Did not see your reply until this morning as I went to bed after I posted my last.
No ambiguity, more like cynicism.
As for you being a simpleton... I doubt that.
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"Discontent for money is just a trick of the rich to keep the poor without it."
Michael Corleone
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
~ H. L. Mencken ~
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We live in a land of abounding quackeries, and if we do not learn how to laugh we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of viewers-with-alarm... In no other country known to me is life as safe and agreeable, taking one day with another, as it is in These States. Even in a great Depression few if any starve, and even in a great war the number who suffer by it is vastly surpassed by the number who fatten on it and enjoy it. Thus my view of my country is predominantly tolerant and amiable. I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.
H. L. Mencken
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"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."
H. L. Mencken
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As for Enron...
I wonder how high the lies and cover ups will reach. Truth is I personally do not know, yet I would not doubt it reaches very high levels as logic of events and "connections" seem to point that way...
So I rather look after my welfare on my own, without the "assistance" of a bunch of "leaders" that sooner or later they prove to be frauds... I feel as though my taxes are the ticket I pay to enjoy this great show that politicians put up. My welfare will be protected by my disbelief of the so called do-gooders of the world.
I barely trust my own shadow since I firmly believe that even paranoids have enemies -g-
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The typical lawmaker of today is a man devoid of principle--a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology, or cannibalism.
H.L. Mencken -- [Quoted in Galt, John (pseud.) _Dreams Come Due_. Reviewed in the Laissez Faire Books catalog, May 1990, p. 17.]
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