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

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (245903)	4/7/2002 6:36:57 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

That's a pretty agreeable motto. Creativity comes from citizens, not from the bureacratic filter of government. From where we are now, inefficiency is acceptable to a large degree (who knows, maybe we get 30% of what we pay for? As Will Rogers said, we don't get all the government we pay for -- thank goodness!). But not pathology -- I see the "governs least" to be most important where secrecy of the warlords of government are concerned. Licking their chops at $2 trillion in revenue are no doubt lots of pathological personalities whose actions would be unacceptable to the public, were they known. Am currently reading an excellent out-of-print book called "Police State", by Jules Archer, from Amazon's used books. Worth a read for anyone who wants to review how countries evolved into police states, and how we have been particularly vulnerable since the Nixon era.