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To: TimF who wrote (367857)	1/22/2008 12:07:23 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576790

Bull. You elect good people and they will make the right changes. Your problem, Tim, is that you don't allow such a prospect into your thinking. Corporations are not nearly as good as you think and politicians are not nearly as bad as you want to believe. But the individual consumer can just go to the competitor. An individual voter can vote for another candidate, but that vote is unlikely to make any change. Consumers and other actors in a market have more incentive to understand their actions than voters, because their actions are much more likely to have consequences, and these consequences are much more likely to personally affect the consumer, than the vote is to personally affect the voter. Also when you do elect a new president or congressman, or governor or mayor, typically the government as a whole doesn't change nearly as much as partisans on both sides would have you believe.