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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ThirdEye who wrote (157032)	7/2/2001 11:52:29 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

...instead of subverting the public welfare. Of course this is quite a matter of perspective. Some lobbyists no doubt deserve their bad reputation. But many serve a useful function. When they are successful in protecting their own interests, often millions of people disassociated with those interests indirectly benefit by having a government that is perpetually held accountable to its own law. I just don't think the government is the benevolent pancake making mammy you seem to think it is. History has shown that "Government is not eloquence; government is not reason; government is a force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant, and a fearsome master." The more we are able to keep government in check, the better it will be for all.