On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:39:40PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Do you have a proposal for solving that problem? > > Going back to a limited federal government as the founding fathers > envisioned? Returning the states' voice in the federal government? Revamping That's just plain crazy talk. We need the government to step in and fix every last little thing for us </sarcasm> exhibit 1: Hurricane Andrew - destroyed practically all of South FL federal disaster relief ~$12 Billion exhibit 2: Hurricane Katrina - destroyed practically all of South LA, AL and parts of MS and TX. federal disaster relief ~120 Billion (yes an entire order of magnitude higher) and still counting I'm all for limited government getting out of people's way. > the tax laws so that the rank and file citizen knows exactly what they're > paying instead of what they're "getting"? > http://www.fairtax.org - total control over how much tax you pay Good luck getting many entrenched politicians to support it though. The lobbies would end. > I think all of those individually, much less combined, would do more good > than increasing the power of the federal government and closing the process to > only those the government itself would deem worthy of inclusion. > Very true. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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