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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> We don't need more government, we need  
> > more
> > personal responsibility!
> 
> How shall we do that?
> 

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We need to quit protecting people from the consequences of their bad choices 
(for one thing).  For example, we don't regulate what people eat, not much 
anyway.  If  a person wants to sit on their backside and eat cheeseburgers 
and 
twinkies all their days, fine, that's their prerogative.  But then the 
government shouldn't mandate that such people be issued health insurance 
policies nor 
allow them parking permits right beside the front door of the mart because 
they 
are "handicapped".

Instead look what's happening, if a person has been frugal with their assests 
the government tries to tax and regulate them out of existence but if they 
have been God's own fool and gotten themselves on the brink of foreclosure 
and 
bankruptcy, the goverment rushes to bail them out.

It was discovered that lepers lost their fingers and toes, not because of the 
direct affects of the disease, but because the disease dulled pain in the 
extremities so much, they could not tell when they were hurting themselves 
and so 
wore and abused their digits until they fell off.  Like that, we have worked 
to dull the effect of very bad personal choices with the result that people 
grind their entire lives down never feeling the full pain of those choices.   
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