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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan B. who wrote (43401)	11/5/2008 11:28:06 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"' Well, I think my statement makes plenty of sense. Trusting government to successfully act in the peoples interest by controlling corporations that came to provide stuff without government direction, is highly wishful thinking, I'd say strongly. Government, after all, can become a powerful beast if we let it (more so than any corporations sprouting under capitalism which we've known). As is often said, "power corrupts absolutely." The idea of this country is to keep the power spread around with adherence to individual freedom and individual rights.<< Kon: I was state director of three different agencies; and wrote three state plans (two permanent and one ad hoc-lol). I know exactly how government works and people are much better off for their social programs. For the public programs we developed. EMT's, ambulances and health and welfare. A good society tends to those things for it citizenry! Beats hell out of throwing a guy with a heart attack in the back of a truck without stablizing him first! I coordinated a crises like Katrina and we sure as hell did it better job than bush's private sector did! 100,000 useless trailors. Boy they made a bundle. Haliburton's $200 hamburgers! Each Department had one representative to coordinate between departments. We did a good job for a fraction of the cost of the private sector. Social programs works.