[Leisler]

I was driving aimlessly through the west. I noticed all these podunk towns, usually a county seat. Business closed, trailers, cheap breakfast joints and lavish public buildings. Many looking like cheap concrete Greek Temples.

Where ever you see grand, huge building and projects, there liberty does not lay. Free working people do no work for decades on stupid symbolic edifices. Slaves and serfs do. They do it because they are ordered to, or the freedoms of free commerce are so restricted that selling ones selves to the powers that be, are the only way of providing.

You show me grand buildings and works, and I will show you an omnipotent state. The life of Borgia era peasants must of been miserable.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Sheesh.