From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Oct 22 2005 - 17:29:52 BST
> [Case]
> The constitution also gives the state and federal legislature the power to
> decide which public purposes public funds should be applied to. Yet you
> object. You can't be objecting to their right to do this since it is
> specified in the constitution. So what is your complaint?
I have no complaint about representative democracy. Never have, never
will. Doesn't mean I have to agree with every decision the majority makes,
any more than you do..
> [Case]
> Actually, I am not that smart either. So, yes we really are that stupid and
> that it why advertisers advertise. From my perspective private interests
> are far more dangerous than public ones. At least in theory we as citizens
> can hold elected officals accountable. We can not do that with private
> companies. I share your paranoia. I just distrust private companies more
> than I do the government. You seem to be the reverse.
You hold private companies accountable by not buying their products.
Unlike the government, no private company can put gun to your head and
say, "Pay up or else." As for trusting government, I suggest you take a
long hard look at world history, especially what occurred during the 20th
century in Russia, German, Italy, Japan and China not to mention Cuba,
Vietnam, and Cambodia.
Platt
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