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> >Your view of good appointments differs from mine. 

My view of good appointments and your view of good appointments is utterly 
beside the point.  And I'd point out that's the whole point!  (Hey, I could 
write Jack Sparrow's lines for the next PotC!)

And it illustrates why the absolute minimum government is the only sane 
stance.  The appointments are NEVER going to be anything that remotely 
resemble our 
'druthers.  It is Obama's view of good appointments that matters, right now 
he being the most likely prospective president ... right now.  If Obama wants 
a 
government leaning toward that ideals of Liberation Theology, he will make 
"good" appointments toward that end.  My idea of minimum government or yours 
of 
efficient government will not be a criterion.

> 
> >Again, my definition of competent people is of those who would have  
> done all that has been done with far less waste.

What's it called ... thinking .... the Jeavons Paradox.  As something becomes 
more efficient, we tend to use MORE of it rather than less.  Gas being a good 
example.  As gas mileage went up, rather than entering a long age of cheap 
transportation, we bought more cars and drove them longer distances.

One rarely escapes the paradox.  If 'competent' people had prosecuted the 
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with far less waste, history and human nature 
show 
we would have waged MORE war, not less.   </HTML>