Re: [OT] Iraq
- From: "Rick Smith" <ricksmith@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:29:45 -0400
"LX-i" <lxi0007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[snip]
But the idea that the "government is the solution" in the first place is
what boggles my mind.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...
That to secure ... rights, governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, ..."
A "revolutionary" idea that probably boggled more than a
few minds, in its day!
What has the government done well?
Off-hand, prevention of anarchy comes to mind; but that
may be mostly from my experience. I do hear of riots,
occasionally, and of gangs and "bosses" that operate
outside the law; but, for the most part, anarchy seems
to be absent from the U.S.
.
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