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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (261175)	4/10/2008 11:37:09 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The Federal Reserve may only have 400 to 600 billion dollars, but the US is not dependent on hand outs of cash from the federal reserve. The US depends on the productive assets of the private sector. Even if we have a recession, hell even during the great depression, those assets kept producing. Production went down, but the majority of the production continued. Is that why as soon as a major emergency like 9/11 or Norther Ireland and so on arises, countries that normally pride themselves on democratic traditions do away with civil liberties? They don't do away with civil liberties, at worst they trim them back. And even if they did totally do away with them, that doesn't deal with the issue at hand. You said that totalitarian systems survive better. Infringing on civil liberties is at least questionable, and arguably certainly a bad thing, but it isn't an example of the nation or the government not surviving. Meanwhile the totalitarian countries have far less respect for liberty and rights at any time, than countries like the US or UK have at the worst of times.