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To: Cogito who wrote (90348)	10/16/2008 2:49:17 PM
From: Sober	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541851

I was going to reply with the obvious..such as defense and the national infrastructure, ... but I felt that I am not really qualified or capable of going down this road very far. I believe in the individual. I do not believe in the government and the power that gets invested in politicians such as Barney Frank and Pelosi. The more they have to do with my life the worse it is. OSHA has been nothing but annoying to most small business and make it hard to be profitable. Workman's comp laws are nothing but extortion of business's and encourage terrible abuse by attorneys and lazy workers. Minimum wage laws are stupid. The market is perfectly capable of establishing what minimum wage workers will work at. We do not need government to say what it should be. ETC ETC.. Ss far as the post office, I have seldom seen such an obnoxious bunch of unconcerned and undedicated workers as those at our local postoffices. They could care less if you stand in line 20 minutes to get waited on. You will see workers walking all over the place, but do you think they would move into a position to help customers. Never. If UPS ran the post office affairs, I wager that it would be more efficient and maybe even cheaper. My UPS driver is very polite, cares about his work, and has actually become a casual friend to those at my shop. Anyway... if you believe that big government is your salvation, then we are just going to disagree. I grew up in the country, know how to survive on my own, and know that real wealth comes from people like me who produce things. Not from a government worker who takes my money and gives some of it back, and who are creating laws that try to redistribute it to welfare cases... And while we are at it, I was totally against the bailout package. It would have been better to take that 700 billion (half of all income tax collected in one year) and given every company a 50% tax reduction. The amount would be the same, but the businesses would have ultimately contributed more back to society in the form of growth and ultimately more taxes. Sober