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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (99756)2/10/2005 2:26:18 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793866
 
The agitator - Well-Put

Jim Henley explains why, though Republicans have clearly lost him, he likewise could never be a Democrat:

...I am viscerally anti-bully and government still seems like the biggest bully around. I don't believe government is inherently a force for good. I do not accept that democracy is a process by which "we" govern "ourselves." I believe it is a process by which a larger group imposes its will on the smaller, and the most energetic and glib busybodies impose their will on the larger. Living on the fringes of DC, I have occasion to drive or walk by the White House and the Capital from time to time. I am not stirred. The hot dog vendor exchanging food for money fills me with more admiration than the bureaucrats walking past him, immersed in discussion of what they surely think of as "the public's business."

Yes to that. I'm so tired of this "the honor of public service" crap. Most (not all) public service isn't honorable. It's leechery. If the day should ever come that I'm asked to give a commencement address, my thesis will go something like this: "You want to serve your fellow man? Go out and make a shitload of money. Employ people. Invest. Create wealth" (I realize that this would likely make it my last commencement address). You'll do a lot more good for your countrymen as a bona-fide member of the filthy stinking rich than you will pushing papers and writing memos as a GS-12.

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