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Actually Billy, it likely WAS about that. … Allow an illustration: You know,there are a lot of people who figure that the right… IE: the power, to keep and bear arms is one that is directly connected to increased numbers of murders… ignoring of course the facts which run exactly in the opposite direction. They’ve never figured out that the power to do something is not directly connected to the worst case scenario for the abuse of that power. So it is with the power of government, as a whole.
Because a power gets abused doesn’t make it power that should NEVER be used. That the power of government is being abused in this case doesn’t make the original concept of government run emergency services a bad one.What you’re describing is a situation where the betterment of the community and the individuals in it, was the idea. However, that idea got perverted. We agree it’s an abuse of power. But why? Why would such a thing be required to cover the costs? Can it be that the social programs local governments are finding themselves forced to spend money on are sapping them dry? That, too is an abuse of power, and in this case, it’s the root cause of what you describe. - KJL gets it. Liberalism IS totalitarian in nature. Think not? Try opposing them seriously, and see what you get. One of these days, I’m going to start posting the contents of my own mailbox to prove the point.
- At some point, the Rock Star status of Obama is going to backfire. It’s gotten crazy, and there’s no way he’s going to be able to live up to the expectations. Hope it does before he manages to get himself elected, in which case it’ll blow up in all our faces.
- I note my comments about Obama and Ayers the other day, made the Chicago Sun Times by way of BlogBurst. Yeah, I know, that and a buck-fifty will buy me a coffee. Still, kind of a thrill. I wonder if they’re getting any hate mail from my comments?
- Oh.. while at the Sun Times site, check out Lynn Sweet’s thoughts on Obama’s vulnerabilities. Come to think on it, I noted Surber over the weekend, comparing seriously, JFK and Obama… a comparison the Obama campaign has themselves invoked… and Surber points up that the comparison is wanting, even with JFK’s flaws. The bottom line, here is that neither Obama or Clinton is worthy of the White House, and niether one is going to be able to overcome their past under the scrutiny the general election will impose.
- I was sorry to see James Joyner in trouble yesterday. Only took one screwup like that to get me swearing off dending on the host’s backups.
- Want to know what’s wrong with our educational system? Ask Drew Carey.
- Since both Obama and Clinton hail from Chicago, it strikes me as interesting that we have evdience that Chicago is the highest taxed city in the nation. Omen, or practical application of the kind of politics these two espouse?
- It strikes me that Nancy Pelosi setting up an office on congressional ethics is an interesting concept, if she plans as a first task to really investigate her activities in cutting deals for companies she holds stock in, like Dole, for example. Smells fishy to me.
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