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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] "And Messrs. Nixon and Reagan didn't veto them?" Oh, don't get me started on Nixon. He completely screwed up the economy with his price controls. Don't ask me how Reagan got his tax cut past the Dems. I'm not familiar with Hill politics four years before I was born. "As to your accusations of me being a Marxist..." Did I call you a Marxist? I must have missed that... And since that pretty much wipes out the basis for the next two paragraphs... "If you assert that there is a direct correlation that exists in our society between wealth and usefulness, there isn't." Of course there's not. A direct corrolation would mean that this is the case ALL THE TIME. As it is, there are maybe three percent of the wealthy who actually inherited it, and of course a VERY small fraction that got it dishonestly. But the vast majority earned it flat out. "Visionaries like Trudeau felt that government wasn't an evil force, but an institution of the public, with responsibilities to defend the public interest. I hope you don't believe it's in the public interest to have a society where downright unethical tobacco execs make a business of spreading their addicitive and posionous goods to the public in an unchecked manner." Of course I don't. But I don't think it's the government's job to DEFINE the public interest. Using that same logic, they could just as easily say that it's not in the public interest for me to be dissing the government, and arrest me. That's like saying, "Hey, it's OK to cheat on your significant other under certain circumstances. And YOU get to choose the circumstances." It's the same flawed argument that supports "relative morality". You may as well NOT have rules, because either way, you're placing your trust in nothing more than the good will of someone under constant temptation. "I hope you don't believe that their interference in the democratic process by buying a political party its convention..." And this interferes in democracy how? Oh, yeah, can't have someone supporting the cantidate that helps them, can we? Final paragraph is drivel. Ignored. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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