Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 07:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Monday 08 May 2006 19:35, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > That's like claiming you're paying twice to cross a toll bridge, never
> > > mind there are usually alternate (longer) routes and the toll goes away
> > > once the bridge is paid for...
> >
> > Never been to Florida, eh? It is a state that is criss-crossed with
> > toll roads, where the toll was going to "go away" once the road was
> > payed for. Some of the roads have been toll roads for something like 30
> > or 40 years. The problem is that government gets addicted to the money.
>
> My assumptions assume a working government, not Florida.
Florida somehow survives. And the crime rate isn't even as high
as NYC's used to be.
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