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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (109442)	10/5/2007 6:36:40 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

skeeter, >Wayne, i agree with you. govt sucks. they ultimately screw everyone but themselves and their interests. then again, so does the private sector.< I agree, but make some distinctions. I have no problem with people in the private sector that make their fortunes because they have better products, run their businesses more effectively, allocate their capital better etc... What I have a problem with is using government and its institutions to rob people, knowingly selling products that are dangerous and hiding that fact, lying etc.. (that sort of thing). However, when we are dealing with the private sector, we sort of know there are some scumbags among the legitimate businessmen. So our guard is up. When we are dealing with the government and its institutions, we are dealing with something that is marketed to us as helping the poor, protecting those that need it, protecting people from the slime in the private sector, defending us etc.... But in many cases it's the complete opposite. So the naive (and there are literally probably 100 million or more in the US) get raped and pillaged and never know what hit them. Then there are calls to expand the government. I see the scumbags that use government and its institutions to transfer wealth and power to themselves as even worse than the rest of the slime. I remember when I used to shoot a lot of pool. I used to hang out in a snake pit with carpeting. No one could hustle me because I knew what I was up against and had my guard up. I didn't get screwed until I made it to corporate America and educated people with expensive suits and a multiple of my income and net worth had their chance. So who's worse, the pool hustler or the snake in nice clothes?