>>>But you're missing the point, Alan. It is because the government knows best and is there to protect business people and workers from running their business - or offering their labor as they see fit. Without mandates from government - which knows best and probably has the benefit of experts and studies - there is little chance of enlightenment among the unannointed.
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>>>Perhaps someday the US will evolve to the point where Washington (or, even better, a One World Government ) will guide us in all things but I am not optimistic as we seem adamant in our ignorance and refuse to follow so many good examples from more enlightened societies (though the results of our upcoming election will probably be a step in the right direction)
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>>Ahh but the Messiah will change all that!
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>Ceterum censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam.
Didn't Reagan do that with an airstrike ?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
