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Originally Posted by Bjaarki
SS didn't specify the level of government, did he? He just said "government," and then went off on a standard-issue Noise Machine rant about government's uselessness. So my points about defense, highways and the CJS stand. And those are just some of the necessary functions of government. There are many more, just as necessary, and about which you would bitch bitter tears if you didn't have them to rely on. So I set the record straight whereas you muddied it.
I wish you guys would get over the idea that government is "them" and realize that government is "us." Have you never seen the US Constitution, for crying out loud? What's it say? "They the government?" It says "We the people." Get a clue, why don't you?
My medical point isn't silly at all, as Ulter pointed out. I can't tell you why, but I'd like you to take my word for it that I know a hell of a lot more about this than you do. You can probably infer what I'm referring to since you and I follow one another's posts and I've dropped enough hints.
Bottomline there is stick to stuff you know about. You obviously don't know jack about medical or scientific research.
Bjaarki
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I spent the first ten years of my EE career as a production and design engineer for a division of a major defense contractor that also dealt with medical magnetrons and thyratrons, so you may want to watch what you infer.
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Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, from "To Sail Beyond the Sunset"
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