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To: RogerFGay
No, I'm saying that Jed has to get a grip on himself and use the institutions of representative government to get the bureaucracy under control. Setting his car on fire does nothing in particular towards this end.

Ivan

76 posted on 10/20/2002 10:33:30 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
No, I'm saying that Jed has to get a grip on himself and use the institutions of representative government to get the bureaucracy under control.

Right now, I'd estimate it would cost someone around $5 billion a year to pay government representatives to stop causing the problem they intentionally created. He would have to compete with the $4 billion a year taxpayers provide to pay states to continue the program, which is one of the major reasons the program exists.

You're just way off blaming Jed Magby for what corrupt politicians have done, and avoiding responsibility as a citizen by leaving people like Jed Magby to their mercy. The Constitutional mechanism for keeping so-called "representative democracy" (which does not exist in American or the UK) in check, is the judiciary.

In my view, Jed Magby may have burned his car in protest in the wrong place. Dealing with judicial corruption is more important than the bureacrats. If the courts did their job, the bureacrats would be as impotent as they should be. Secondly however, we as citizens, do need to do something about the corruption of our legislatures. In the US, we have two small corrupt political parties that have controlled political power for generations. This isn't democracy and the two parties know they can get away with any type of corruption they agree on.

But finally, what should we do about the media? The US Constitution reminds us that "the press" is an inseparable instrument of democracy and freedom. But all we've gotten from them on the issue of child support, is years of fraudulent propaganda and support for corrupt oppressive government.
89 posted on 10/20/2002 10:46:33 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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