>I'm also smart enough to know that I don't know everything and at some point I need depend upon the wisdom of someone else
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>Oh, so you are admitting that the government knows more about what is good for you than you do? I figured that this was the case....

I wonder what is worse... admitting that you don't know what is good for you or pretent that you know everything about what is good for you....

There is a a saying that wise men know that they know nothing. It surely is not applicable to you marcia.