On May 24, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Mike Geary wrote: > Don't get me wrong. I hate anyone telling me what to do, the > government > included, but I hate the government less and trust it more than I do > corporations or private charities or any agency not regularly > answerable to > the people. And that is the main difference between our viewpoints - alliances and trusts and prejudices. My prejudice is to Constitutional government and private sector charities while your beliefs lie elsewhere. The Great Society is a miserable failure but I present my reasoning and you yours and I respect that. ~Brian~ > Mike Geary > Soul Socialist of Memphis "Like all true believers, I believed as I did becasue I needed to believe: in a utopian vision of the future, in the possibility of human perfectability...And I still need that belief, even if the particular vision I had embraced has to turned to ashes." - Gerda Lerner on her belief in Communism "How do you tell a socialist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-socialist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html