On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:28:12 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
.. .

Ed, if we simply tossed out a few thousand of our superfluous laws
(TBD) and enforced the truly valid ones, things would immediately
improve.

Is TBD something like "a player to be named later"? I assume you'd create a
government agency to judge which laws are superfluous, right? g

Nah, I thought I'd simply tell the gov't what I thought should stay.
wink


People would feel less abused, cops would get a helluva lot more
respect, and courts might get the time they need to give proper
handling to criminals.

TBD, as you say. Remember the immortal words of Robert Bork (and the
smartest thing he ever said) "All laws are legislation of morality." It's
absolutely true, and the consequences of that simple statement are the root
of every problem you have with the laws, and that Stuart has with the
agencies -- and that all of us have with the financial-system meltdown. The
laws are the result of political judgments about what people think is right
and what they think is wrong, and that has no necessary connection to what
works and what doesn't.

Less ideology, more pragmatic centrism, and we'll all be a lot better off.
We've had enough of government that makes us feel good about our moral
theories. What we need is government that works to achieve our basic
aspirations.

It's such a pity that those two things are so far apart in reality.

Alas, I do agree that ideology ain't gonna cut it, but it sure feels
good.

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