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To: c.hinton who wrote (240809)	9/3/2007 7:55:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Like the war in Iraq, and Globalstar, it wasn't an excellent idea if it goes off the rails and great suffering results. Let's assume you are right:<,it is human nature to go to extremes.....what may start as an excellent idea often becomes an object of abuse.....it is not the idea that is to blame but rather an inflexable system bound by laws that can be subverted by the clever and greedy. > Then the very fact that it's government, for which normal bounds on extremes don't apply as they do to private companies and individuals who can lose customers, go broke and bankrupt, means the extremes and abuse are more likely. As proven time after time after time after time forever and ever amen. Also, the nature of government is inflexible, with laws and subversions by vested interests. So it's bound to fail by comparison with the alternative. It was a bad idea. I was young and had seen little of the world and governments. Some people don't change their minds when confronted with facts and results. They keep doing more of the same. Fortunately, in NZ, people seem to be figuring out that welfare is the problem, not the solution. It'll take a long time and many more children will be tortured and killed before the changes are complete and it stops. The survivors' blighted lives will come back to haunt and maim others, so there are generations of carnage still to go as an echo down through the decades of bad ideas from long ago. Mqurice