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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (8935)	2/16/2003 6:39:19 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 306849

You could be right. But it seems like moving chairs around the Titantic, when gov't consumes 40% of the GDP, which is more like 80% of the discretionary wealth that would contribute most to prosperity, arts and commerce. In more prosperous eras gov't was a tiny fraction of that. The big predators were big business, and gov't left you (and them, unfortunately) alone. So little of gov't contributes to prosperity -- it's mostly a protection racket. The goal of young and old citizens today is to stay out of the way of gov't and big business, as they work together to pillage the unfortunate and slow-moving.