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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Don Hurst who wrote (531931)11/24/2009 12:06:21 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575175
 
Yup, "government", our government, sometimes known as "We the People".

Sometimes known as that, but not very accurately. The government is a specific subset of people. Not all of them. And even if it was all of them it would be a collection of people butting in to other people's business. If its a vote, its because you can get 50.001% to decide to be nosy. It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say its two foxes and a chicken voting on what to have for dinner, but there is some truth in that analogy.

Vietnam was a terrible example of gov't "busy body" errors

In many ways it was, but not as much as the actions of FDR and LBJ's social programs which you apparently praise.
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