>>Apparently you believe it when the guy says "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."
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>Not unless he's an expert. :)
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>John, you really didn't respond to what I was saying, which is that you gotta trust someone for most of your knowledge. It's simply not possible for you or I to determine what last month's unemployment rate was, e.g.


Right, so who says I gotta believe what they say. As a matter of fact I don't. Trust is just why we have a Congressional Budget Office and whatever the other one's name is. They never have the same figures. It's not that hard to determine when the economy is good vs. bad, you can see the people standing in line. Don't buy into this notion that the government is your friend, becase they ain't. (That may sound like an anarchist, but as a law enforcement officer for the past 24 years, I'm hear to tell you the government will protect you from your neighbor, but who will protect you from the government.)