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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (2120)	9/2/2008 9:21:37 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 86355

Civility, high wages, economic growth, ingenious engineers, clean neighborhoods, excellent education, health care, baseball stadiums – you name it, it probably can be (and probably has been) produced by private efforts. Government can certainly affect the production and distribution of things – and reasonable people can argue about whether that effect is likely to be beneficial or not. Government is an organic outgrowth of our natural desire to do things efficiently. There are just many, many functions that are better done collectively than individually. You can imagine the caveman clans figuring out that it was more effective to work together to defend themselves than it was to defend themselves individually... thus was born the military. If it was more efficient for each of us to build and maintain the roads we use then we would do it. So I don't buy the non-creationist vs. creationist analogy. Government, or collective effort, is just a more efficient version of individual effort... it depends on the task. But thanks for the interesting perspective.

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (2120)	12/14/2009 9:15:26 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Counting limos in Copenhagen. Notable & Quotable DECEMBER 13, 2009, 8:42 P.M. ET. Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, on the climate change conference, from the London Telegraph (Dec. 5): Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfill the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden." And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen. online.wsj.com