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To: TimF who wrote (320162)	1/11/2007 7:49:57 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576178

Totalitarian and authoritarian are not exact synonyms. Tell it to Webster's; that's where I got the definition. They both imply centralized control. But a liberal dictator or monarch would not be a totalitarian, and a democracy that controlled almost all aspects of your life would be totalitarian. A dictator is a dictator whether he's liberal or not. An absolute monarch is a dictator. A democracy that controls all aspects of its citizens' lives is not a democracy. Typically the two go together, but there is a reason why one word will not work to define both. "Totalitarianism is a term employed by political scientists, especially those in the field of comparative politics, to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior." en.wikipedia.org; Sorry Tim but I am going to stick with Webster's on this one. and with baseball, gov't can refuse to fund and subsidize sports stadiums. "I actually agree with that idea, but apparently for different reasons." No, its the same reason.........I just have two motivations.....one is yours and the other is restricting A-Rod's pay. The idea of publicly funded stadiums is only tangentially related to A-Rods pay. He would get paid a ton with no public finance of stadiums, as would many other athletes. They are more than "tangentially related". If sports teams had to build stadiums and directly pay the full 'mortgage', they would have less money to spend on salaries.